chaise
English edit
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Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French chaise. Doublet of cathedra and chair.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
chaise (plural chaises)
- An open, horse-drawn carriage for one or two people, usually with one horse and two wheels.
- 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 159–160:
- “But why is it necessary, said Edmund, that Crawford’s carriage, or his only should be employed? Why is no use to be made of my mother’s chaise? I could not, when the scheme was first mentioned the other day, understand why a visit from the family were not to be made in the carriage of the family.”
- [1877], Anna Sewell, “Earlshall”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, page 101:
- The next morning after breakfast, Joe put Merrylegs into the mistress's low chaise to take him to the vicarage; he came first and said good bye to us, and Merrylegs neighed to us from the yard.
- A chaise longue.
- A post chaise.
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French edit
Etymology edit
Originally, simply a variant of chaire. From Middle French chaire, inherited from Latin cathedra (“seat”), a borrowing from Ancient Greek καθέδρα (kathédra). Doublet of chaire and cathèdre.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
chaise f (plural chaises)
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Descendants edit
- → Alemannic German: Scheese
- → English: chaise
- ⇒ English: shay (archaic)
- Louisiana Creole: lashèz, lashèj, shèj, shèz
Further reading edit
- “chaise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Irish edit
Adjective edit
chaise
- Lenited form of caise.
Scottish Gaelic edit
Adjective edit
chaise
- Lenited form of cas.
Mutation edit
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
caise | chaise |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |