traire

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See also: Traire and trairé

French

Etymology

From Old French traire, treire (to pull), from Vulgar Latin *tragere, from Latin trahere, present active infinitive of trahō (I pull), from Proto-Indo-European *tragʰ- (to draw, drag).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʁɛʁ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛʁ
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Verb

traire

  1. (transitive) to milk (a cow, etc)

Conjugation

This verb traditionally has no past historic or imperfect subjunctive. They would be formed on a -tray- root: *je trayis, *que nous trayissions etc. Forms using the 'a' endings of verbs in -er are now used when there is an unavoidable need to use these forms. The root -trais- was used instead of -tray- in the 18th century, and remains in Swiss and Savoy dialects.

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Anagrams


Middle French

Etymology

From Old French traire.

Verb

traire

  1. to fire (an arrow)
    • circa 1369, Jean Froissart, Chroniques:
      arbalestriers commencierent a traire sur le chastel
      [the] crossbowmen started to fire at the castle

Descendants

  • French: traire

Norman

Etymology

From Old French traire, from Latin trahō (I pull).

Verb

traire

  1. to pull
  2. to milk

Conjugation


Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan traire, from Vulgar Latin tragere, from Latin trahere (to drag, extract, trail).

Pronunciation

Verb

traire

  1. to pull, drag

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *tragere, present active infinitive of *tragō, from Classical Latin trahō (I pull).

Verb

traire

  1. to pull
  2. (chiefly of a weapon) to draw; to unsheathe
  3. to pull out (extract by pulling); to remove (by pulling)
    • circa 1150, Thomas d'Angleterre, Le Roman de Tristan, page 164 (of the Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, line 1980:
      Un anel d'or trait de sun dei
      she removed a gold ring from her finger
    • circa 1170, Wace, Le Roman de Rou:
      A plusurs fist traire les denz
      For many, he pulled out their teeth

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb ends in a palatal stem, so there is an extra i before the e of some endings. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants


Old Occitan

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *tragere, present active infinitive of *tragō, from Classical Latin trahō (I pull).

Verb

traire

  1. to pull

Descendants

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