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oreille

Finnish edit

Noun edit

oreille

  1. allative plural of ori

French edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Middle French oreille, from Old French oreille, from Vulgar Latin oricla, from Latin auricula, diminutive of auris, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws. Cognate with Catalan and Galician orella; Portuguese orelha; Italian orecchio; Occitan aurelha; Romanian ureche; and Spanish oreja. Compare zoreille, zorey.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ɔ.ʁɛj/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛj

Noun edit

oreille f (plural oreilles)

  1. ear

Synonyms edit

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Descendants edit

  • Mauritian Creole: zorey
  • Réunion Creole French: zoreilles, z'oreilles, zorey
  • Saint Dominican Creole French: z'oreille
  • Seychellois Creole: zorey
  • → Esperanto: orelo

Further reading edit

Middle French edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Old French oreille, from Vulgar Latin oricla, from Latin auricula, diminutive of auris.

Noun edit

oreille f (plural oreilles)

  1. ear

Descendants edit

  • French: oreille (see there for further descendants)

Norman edit

 
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Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Old French oreille, from Vulgar Latin oricla, from Latin auricula, diminutive of auris (“ear”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws.

Noun edit

oreille f (plural oreilles)

  1. (Guernsey, anatomy) ear

Old French edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin ōricula, variant of auricula.

First attested circa 1050 in the Oxford manuscript of La Chanson de Roland.[1]

Noun edit

oreille oblique singular, f (oblique plural oreilles, nominative singular oreille, nominative plural oreilles)

  1. ear

Descendants edit

References edit

  1. ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “auricula”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 25: Refonte Apaideutos–Azymus, page 988
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