soustenir

Middle French

Alternative forms

soubtenir

Etymology

From Old French soustenir.

Verb

soustenir

to keep up; to sustain

Descendants

French: soutenir

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *sustenīre, from Latin sustinēre, present active infinitive of sustineō.

Verb

soustenir

to keep up; to sustain
to bear (suffering, a burden, punishment, etc.)

Descendants

English: sustain (borrowed)
Middle French: soustenir
- French: soutenir

References

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (soustenir, supplement)

sustenir on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

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