chif
Cornish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English chief, from Old French chief, chef, from Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput (“head”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *káput.
Adjective
[edit]chif
Derived terms
[edit]- chifcita (“capital city”)
Noun
[edit]chif m (plural chifys)
Mutation
[edit]| radical | soft | aspirate | hard | mixed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| chif | jif | unchanged | unchanged | unchanged |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- “chif” in Cornish Dictionary / Gerlyver Kernewek, Akademi Kernewek.
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]chif
- alternative form of chef
Adjective
[edit]chif
- alternative form of chef
Categories:
- Cornish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Cornish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kap- (head)
- Cornish terms borrowed from English
- Cornish terms derived from English
- Cornish terms derived from Old French
- Cornish terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Cornish terms derived from Latin
- Cornish lemmas
- Cornish adjectives
- Cornish nouns
- Cornish masculine nouns
- Middle English alternative forms