chien

See also: Chien, chiên, chiến, and chiền

French
Un chien

Etymology

From Middle French chien, from Old French chien, from Vulgar Latin *cane, from Latin canis (accusative canem), from earlier canēs, from Proto-Italic *kō (acc. *kwanem), Proto-Indo-European *ḱwn-i-, derived from *ḱwṓ (acc. *ḱwónm̥).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʃjɛ̃/
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Noun

chien m (plural chiens, feminine chienne)

  1. dog
  2. cock, hammer (of a firearm)

Adjective

chien (feminine singular chienne, masculine plural chiens, feminine plural chiennes)

  1. (Louisiana) greedy, stingy

Derived terms

Further reading

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

chien

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ちえん

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French chien, from Latin canis, canem.

Noun

chien m (plural chiens)

  1. dog (animal)

Descendants

Old French

Etymology

From Latin canis, canem.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tʃi̯ẽn/
  • Rhymes: -ẽn

Noun

chien m (oblique plural chiens, nominative singular chiens, nominative plural chien)

  1. dog (animal)

Descendants

Southern Ohlone

Noun

chien

  1. before

References

Felipe Arroyo de la Cuesta (1861) Grammar of the Mutsun language, spoken at the Mission of San Juan Bautista, Alta California (Shea’s Library of American Linguistics)‎, volume IV, Cramoisy Press.

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