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chien

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See also: Chien, chiên, chiến, chiền, and Chiến

Antigua and Barbuda Creole English

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Etymology

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From English train.

Noun

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chien (plural chien dem, quantified chien)

  1. train
    Synonym: loko

French

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Un chien

Etymology

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    Inherited from Middle French chien, from Old French chien, from Latin canis, canem (“dog”).

    See cognates in regional languages in France : Bourguignon chein, Catalan ca, Corsican cane, cani, Franco-Provençal shin, tsin, Gallo chien, cun, qhun Norman quien, tchian, Occitan can, chin, Picard quien, tchien.

    See cognates in Romance languages outside France : Aromanian cãni, Galician can, Italian cane, Lombard can, Ladin cian, Portuguese cão, Romanian câine, Sardinian cane, Sicilian cani, Spanish can.

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    chien m (plural chiens, feminine chienne)

    1. dog
      Synonyms: clebs, cabot
    2. cock, hammer (of a firearm)

    Adjective

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

    1. (Louisiana) greedy, stingy

    Derived terms

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    Descendants

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    • Guianese Creole: chyen
    • Haitian Creole: chyen
    • ⇒ Mauritian Creole: lisien
    • Réunion Creole French: sien, syin

    Further reading

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    Anagrams

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    Japanese

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    Romanization

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    chien

    1. Rōmaji transcription of ちえん

    Middle French

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    Etymology

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    From Old French chien, from Latin canis, canem.

    Noun

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    chien m (plural chiens)

    1. dog (animal)

    Descendants

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    Old French

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    Etymology

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    From Latin canis, canem.

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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

    1. dog (Canis lupus familiaris)

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    Réunion Creole French

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    Noun

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    chien

    1. (High Creole) alternative form of sien (“dog”)

    References

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    • Armand, Alain (1987), Dictionnaire Kréol rénioné/Français [Reunionese Creole-French Dictionary] (in French), Océan Éditions, →ISBN, page 325

    Southern Ohlone

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    Noun

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    chien

    1. before

    References

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    • 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)‎[1], volume IV, Cramoisy Press