The DMF’s decision to treat this lexeme together with the adjectival privin in the same article may be questionable. The adjective privin is a hapax (not attested in Anglo-Norman), and most likely an alteration of privé¹ (from privus). In contrast, the noun privigne derives from Classical Latin privignus (ultimately also from privus). This noun, though common in Latin, is unattested in Continental French, rare in Anglo-Norman, and only appears in English in the early seventeenth century. Its appearance in Samps² may thus be that of an exceptional Latinism.