Québécois (word) la langue française mentions only a territorial meaning for "Québécois". Newspaper editor Lysiane Gagnon has referred to an ethnic sense of the word "Québécois" in both English and French. French expressions employing "Québécois" often appear in both French and English. Québécois (word) Québécois (pronounced ; feminine: Québécoise (pronounced ), ' (fem.: '), or (fem.: ) is a word used primarily to refer to a native or inhabitant of the Canadian province of Quebec, the majority of whom speak French as a mother tongue. It can refer to French spoken in Quebec. It may also be used, with an upper- or
Witch (word) Old English also had "hægtesse" "witch, fury", whence Modern English "hag", of uncertain origin, but cognate to German "Hexe", from an Old High German "haga-zussa", Common Germanic "*haga-tusjon-" (OED), perhaps from a "*tesvian" "to mar, damage", meaning "field-damager" (the suggestion of Grimm). The element "hag-" originally means "fence, wooden enclosure", and hence also "enclosed fields, cultivated land". Other Old English synonyms of "wicca" and "wicce" include "gealdricge", "scinlæce", "hellrúne". The Old English plural form for both the masculine and feminine nouns was "wiccan" ("witches") and "wiccecræft" was "witchcraft". The earliest recorded use of the word is in the "Laws of