chalet
See also: châlet
English
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Etymology
Borrowed from French chalet, from Franco-Provençal çhalè (“herdsman's hut in the mountains”).
Pronunciation
Noun
chalet (plural chalets)
- An alpine style of wooden building with a sloping roof and overhanging eaves. [from late 18th c.]
- 2013 January, Brian Hayes, “Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist[1], volume 101, number 1, page 62:
- Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.
Translations
wooden house
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French
Etymology
Swiss French, from Franco-Provençal çhalè (“herdsman's hut in the mountains”), from Old Franco-Provençal chaslet, diminutive of chasel (“farmhouse”), from Late Latin casalis (“house-like, house-related”), from Latin casa (“house”).
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Noun
chalet m (plural chalets)
Descendants
Further reading
- “chalet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Italian
Etymology
Noun
chalet m (uncountable)
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Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) chalet
Malay
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
chalet
- chalet (wooden house)
Spanish
Etymology
Noun
chalet m (plural chalets)
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