clafouti

Note: According to a hypothesis in Französisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, seconded by Bloch and Wartburg (Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue française), clafouti is a sort of portmanteau word. The initial element claf- is an outcome of the Gallo-Romance verb represented by Old French claufir "to attach with nails" (ultimately a univerbation of Latin clavō figere). The corresponding verb in Alpine Occitan dialects—though not in Limousin—is clafir "to fill, stuff." This base is allegedly blended with fout-, the stem of foutre "to have sexual intercourse with, fuck," figuratively "to throw, place carelessly, strike" (going back to Latin futuere) with many derivatives in dialects. The final element is the deverbal suffix -i(s), forming nouns denoting a product of the verbal action, often somehing mixed, crushed, or jumbled (as fouillis "mess, jumble," gâchis "waste, mess," hachis "minced meat," torchis "mixture of clay and straw"); it goes back to Old French -ëiz, going back to Vulgar Latin *-ātīcium.