chaîne
/ʃɛn/ · noun
Meaning
- chain
- channel
- warp
- hi-fi or stereo system
- character string
- inflection of chaîner:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Etymology / origin
Inherited from Middle French chaisne, from Old French chaene, chaiene, caiene, inherited from Latin catēna. Doublet of cadène and catène. The long vowel derives from the Old French hiatus; by analogy the length was expressed with a silent -s- in Middle French, which was then replaced with the circumflex.
- catēna(la)→
- chaene(fro)→
- chaisne(Middle French)→
- chaisne(Middle French)→
- chaîne (French)
- Relations: inh, inh, inh, inh
Related words
Descendant words
- cadena(Catalan) (cog)
- ĉeno(Esperanto) (bor)
- chenn(Haitian Creole) (der)
- kateno(Ido) (cog)
- kedja(Swedish) (cog)
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