cheoir
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French cheoir, from Late Latin cadēre, from Latin cadĕre.
Verb edit
cheoir
- to fall
Synonyms edit
Noun edit
cheoir m (plural cheoirs)
- fall (instance of falling)
Descendants edit
- French: choir
Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
- chedeir, chadeir, chadir, chedir, cadeir (archaic)
- cheeir, chaeir, chair, cheir, caeir
- chaoir, chaer, chaier, cheer, cheher, cheier, cheiir, cheire, cheioir, cher, chere, cheur, chier, choire
- cair, kair
Etymology edit
From Late Latin cadēre, from Latin cadĕre.
Pronunciation edit
- (archaic) IPA(key): /t͡ʃəˈðei̯ɾ/, (western) /t͡ʃaˈðei̯ɾ/, (northern) /kaˈðei̯ɾ/
- (classical) IPA(key): /t͡ʃəˈoi̯ɾ/, (western) /t͡ʃaˈei̯ɾ/, (northern) /kaˈei̯ɾ/
- (late) IPA(key): /ʃ(ə)ˈo̯ɛɾ/, (western) /ʃaˈeɾ/, (northern) /kaˈeɾ/
Verb edit
cheoir
- to fall
- to fall out (become detached)
- 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine):
- Donc il semble par cest exemple que aulcuns soient mezeaux confermés puisque les ongles cheent
- So it seems by this example that some are confirmed lepers because their nails fall out
- (impersonal) to happen
Conjugation edit
This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has a stressed present stem chié distinct from the unstressed stem che, as well as other irregularities. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of cheoir (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Angevin: chair
- French: choir
- Gallo: chaeir, chair
- Norman: caeir, tcheir; tchaie
- Picard: quère
- Walloon: tchair
References edit
- “Appendix E: Irregular Verbs” in E. Einhorn (1974), Old French: A Concise Handbook, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 151
- chair on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub