cheminee
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See also: cheminée
Old French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Late Latin camīnāta (“room with a chimney”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cheminee oblique singular, f (oblique plural cheminees, nominative singular cheminee, nominative plural cheminees)
- chimney (vent used to allow smoke and other fumes to escape)
Descendants[edit]
- 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)[1]
- → Middle English: chymeney
- → Italy:
- → Iberia:
- → Sicilian: ciminìa (see there for further descendants)
References[edit]
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (cheminee, supplement)
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “camīnus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 139
- ^ Davy, J. and Panayotou, A. (1997) “French loans in Cypriot Greek,” Actes du colloque tenu à Lyon, p. 115. https://www.persee.fr/doc/mom_1274-6525_2000_act_31_1_1849#mom_1274-6525_2000_act_31_1_T1_0125_0000.