chas

See also: Chas, Chas., chás, and Chaś

English

Noun

chas

1. plural of cha

Breton

Noun

chas

1. plural of ki

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French chas, perhaps a derivation from Latin capsus (“sort of cage, hollow body”), related to capsa (“case, box”). The sense evolution could have been from "cage" to "bubble," as attested in the writings of Apicius (a Roman cookbook author), and then finally used to represent a small hollow object, or a cavity.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃa/, /ʃɑ/

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• Homophone: chat

Noun

chas m (plural chas)

1. eye (of a needle)

Further reading

• “chas”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• cash

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Arann) IPA^(key): /xɑsˠ/
• (Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /xasˠ/

Adjective

chas

1. Lenited form of cas.

Verb

chas

1. past analytic of cas

Occitan

Preposition

chas (Limousin)

1. to, at, in (a place)

Spanish

Noun

chas m pl

1. plural of cha

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /χaːs/

Verb

chas

1. Aspirate mutation of cas.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cas	gas	nghas	chas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Contraction

chas

1. Alternative form of 'chas
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Chas mhyne weery.

     I was very weary.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 56