cheminee

See also: cheminée

Old French

Alternative forms

• chiminee, chaminee, cheiminee, cemminee
• chimenee, chamenee, chemenee
• queminee (northern)

Etymology

From Late Latin camīnāta (“room with a chimney”).

Pronunciation

• (classical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃəmiˈneːə/, /t͡ʃi-/, /t͡ʃa-/, /-mən-/, (northern) /kə-/

Noun

cheminee oblique singular, f (oblique plural cheminees, nominative singular cheminee, nominative plural cheminees)

1. chimney (vent used to allow smoke and other fumes to escape)

Descendants

• Middle French: cheminée
  • French: cheminée (see there for further descendants)
  • → Occitan: chimenèia, chaminèia ⇒ cheminièra, chiminièra (ending replaced with -ièra)
    • → Italian: ciminiera
• Norman: cheunm'née, chimenaée; chim'naïe; chimnee
• Picard: c'minée

Borrowings:

• → Cypriot Greek: τζημνία (tzimnía)
• → Middle English: chymeney
  • English: chimney
  • Scots: chimley
  • Yola: gimlie
  • → Welsh: simnai
• → Italy:
  • Italian: sciaminea (archaic or Tuscan), cimineja (Siena)
  • Ligurian: ciminea
• → Iberia:
  • Old Catalan: xemenea
    • Catalan: xemeneia
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: [Term?]
    • Galician: cheminea
    • Portuguese: chaminé
  • Old Spanish: cheminea, chimenea
    • Spanish: chimenea
• → Sicilian: ciminìa (see there for further descendants)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (cheminee, supplement)
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “camīnus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 139