oiseau

c. 1100, from Middle French oyseau, from Old French oisel, from Late Latin aucellus, contraction of Vulgar Latin *avicellus, diminutive of Latin avis, from Proto-Italic *awis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis. Compare Italian uccello, Occitan aucèl, Catalan ocell/aucell, Walloon oujhea, Gallo ouézai, Jersey Norman ouaîsé, Franco-Provençal usél, Friulian uciel, Sicilian aceddu, Neapolitan auciello.

Compare also with oie (“goose”), itself derived from avis.

• IPA^(key): /wa.zo/

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• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): [zwɒzo], [zozo]

oiseau m (plural oiseaux)

1. bird

• Antillean Creole: zwazo
• Haitian Creole: zwazo
• Louisiana Creole French: zozo, zwazo
• Mauritian Creole: zwazo
• Seychellois Creole: zwazo

• “oiseau” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).