cheoir
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French cheoir, from Vulgar Latin *cadēre, from Latin cadere, present active infinitive of cadō.
Verb
cheoir
- to fall
Synonyms
Noun
cheoir m (plural cheoirs)
- fall (instance of falling)
Descendants
- French: choir
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *cadēre, from Latin cadere, present active infinitive of cadō.
Verb
cheoir
- to fall
- to fall out (become detached)
- 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine):
- Donc il semble par cest exemple que aulcuns soient mezeaux confermés puisque les ongles cheent
- So it seems by this example that some are confirmed lepers because their nails fall out
- (impersonal) to happen
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has a stressed present stem chié distinct from the unstressed stem che, as well as other irregularities. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of cheoir (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “Appendix E: Irregular Verbs” in E. Einhorn (1974), Old French: A Concise Handbook, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 151
Categories:
- Middle French terms inherited from Old French
- Middle French terms derived from Old French
- Middle French terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Middle French terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Middle French terms inherited from Latin
- Middle French terms derived from Latin
- Middle French lemmas
- Middle French verbs
- Middle French nouns
- Middle French masculine nouns
- Middle French countable nouns
- Old French terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Old French terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Old French terms inherited from Latin
- Old French terms derived from Latin
- Old French lemmas
- Old French verbs
- Old French terms with quotations
- Old French impersonal verbs
- Old French verbs with stem alternations
- Old French verbs with weak-i preterite
- Old French verbs with strong-u preterite
- Old French third group verbs
- Old French verbs ending in -oir
- Old French irregular verbs