çucre

Old French

Alternative forms

• chucre, sucre, zucre

Etymology

From Medieval Latin zuccarum, from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), from Persian شکر (šakar), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā, “ground or candied sugar”, originally “grit, gravel”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ (“gravel, boulder”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sy.krə/

Noun

çucre oblique singular, m (oblique plural çucres, nominative singular çucres, nominative plural çucre)

1. sugar (sweet crystalized powder)

Descendants

• Anglo-Norman: chucre
  • → Cornish: sugra
  • → Middle Irish: siúcra
    • Irish: siúcra
    • Manx: shugyr
    • Scottish Gaelic: siùcar
  • → Welsh: siwgr
• Middle French: sucre
  • French: sucre
    • Haitian Creole: sik
    • →⇒ Danish: sucrose
    • →⇒ English: sucrose
    • → Malecite-Passamaquoddy: sukol (or from English)
    • → Mango: súkàr
    • → Rade: sĭk
  • → Middle English: sugre, sewgyr, succer, succere, sucere, sucre, suger, sugowr, sugr, sugur, sugure, sugyr, sugyre, sukyr, zugere, zuker, zukur
    • English: sugar (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: succar
• Norman: chucre
• Walloon: souke
• → Aragonese: zucre
• → Asturian: zucre
• → Basque: azukre (influenced by Spanish azúcar)
• → Catalan: sucre
• → Galician: azucre (influenced by Spanish azúcar)
• → Lithuanian: cukrus
  • → Latgalian: cukrys
  • → Samogitian: sokros
• → Middle Breton: csucr
  • Breton: sukr
• → Middle Dutch: suicker, suker
  • Dutch: suiker
    • Afrikaans: suiker
      • → Sotho: tswekere
      • → Xhosa: iswekile
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: sikri
    • Negerhollands: sukker, schukker, suku
      • → Virgin Islands Creole: suku, sukut (dated)
    • Skepi Creole Dutch: sukuru
    • → Aukan: sukuu
    • → Munsee: shóokal
    • → Papiamentu: panseiku
    • → Saramaccan: súki
    • → Sranan Tongo: sukru, suiker
      • → Lokono: shikarho
      • → Caribbean Hindustani: sukru
      • → Kari'na: sukuru, sukulu
    • → Unami: shukël (or from English)
  • Limburgish: sókker
• → Occitan: sucre

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (sucre, supplement)