noyau

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) A French liqueur made at Poissy in north central France from brandy and flavoured with almonds and the pits of apricots.
 * 2) * 1792,, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 178:
 * His coffee was excellent, and then came a case of liqueurs, noyau both white and red, etc.
 * 1)  A small nucleus or core group of people or animals.

Etymology
Backformed from, plural of , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) stone (of a fruit), pit (of a fruit)
 * 2) group (of artists etc.); cell (of terrorists etc.)
 * 3)  core
 * 4)  nucleus
 * 5)  kernel
 * 6)  nucleus of a syllable