I am sure that english got “beef steak” from there then
Because “bif” is pronounced the same as “beef” and “teck” is kinda similiar to “steak”, Beef in french seems to be Bœuf which checks out with my theory
(Note: it’s been a long time since i last talked in French ans i wouldn’t be able to anymore lol)
you’re right about beef coming from bœuf, that’s because the norman conquest of britain in 1066 changed / added a lot of the vocabulary, for example lots of the words for meat are derived from old french (beef – bœuf, poultry – poule), and the words for the animal have germanic roots (cow – coo, no idea about chicken tbh), since the economic divide between farmers and aristocrats was also a linguistic divide
Learned in French class the word for roast beef is… rosbif.
Rosbif is also slang for ze English. Also, we have the word bifteck for beef steak.
I am sure that english got “beef steak” from there then
Because “bif” is pronounced the same as “beef” and “teck” is kinda similiar to “steak”, Beef in french seems to be Bœuf which checks out with my theory
(Note: it’s been a long time since i last talked in French ans i wouldn’t be able to anymore lol)
you’re right about beef coming from bœuf, that’s because the norman conquest of britain in 1066 changed / added a lot of the vocabulary, for example lots of the words for meat are derived from old french (beef – bœuf, poultry – poule), and the words for the animal have germanic roots (cow – coo, no idea about chicken tbh), since the economic divide between farmers and aristocrats was also a linguistic divide
It’s the other way around. French bifteck comes from english beefsteak.