chayere
Middle English
Alternative forms
- chaȝer, chaier, chaiere, chaire, chayer, chayre, cheyere, cheyur
- cheier, cheire (East Saxon); chaere (Southern, Southwest Midland); chier (West Midland)
- chaer, chare, schayer (Northern); cheare, cheir, cheyare, cheyre, chiar, chyar (Early Scots)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French chaiere,[1] from Latin cathedra, from Ancient Greek καθέδρα (kathédra).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃæi̯ər(ə)/, /ˈt͡ʃæi̯r(ə)/
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛ̝ːr(ə)/ (from an Old French variety which monophthongised /ai̯/)[2]
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃeːr(ə)/ (possibly through raising after /t͡ʃ/; compare Scots cheen)
Noun
chayere (plural chayeres)
- A comfortable or backed seat:
- (figuratively) An office or position.
- (rare) A dais; an elevated platform.
Descendants
- English: chair (see there for further descendants)
- Middle Scots: chear, chere, chiar, chyre
- Yola: chyre
References
- ^ “chaier(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 19 July 2018.
- ^ Aitken, A[dam] J., Macafee, Caroline, editors (2002), chapter 14, in The Older Scots Vowels: A History of the Stressed Vowels of Older Scots from the Beginnings to the Eighteenth Century (Scottish Text Society, Fifth Series; 1), Edinburgh: Scottish Text Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, § 3, page 77.