çucre

Old French

Alternative forms

chucre, sucre, zucre

Etymology

From Medieval Latin zuccarum, from Arabic سُكَّر‎ (sukkar), from Persian ‎ (šakar), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā, “ground or candied sugar”, originally “grit, gravel”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ (“gravel, boulder”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sy.krə/

Noun

çucre m (oblique plural çucres, nominative singular çucres, nominative plural çucre)

sugar (sweet crystalized powder)

Descendants

Anglo-Norman: chucre
- → Cornish: sugra
- → Middle Irish: siúcra
  - Irish: siúcra
  - Manx: shugyr
  - Scottish Gaelic: siùcar
- → Welsh: siwgr
Middle French: sucre
- French: sucre
  - Haitian Creole: sik
  - → Danish: sucrose
  - → English: sucrose
  - → Malecite-Passamaquoddy: sukol
  - → Rade: sĭk
- → Middle English: sugre, suger, sucre, succer, zuker, sucere, succere, zukur, sugur, sugyre, sugowr, sukyr, sugure, sugr, sewgyr, sugyr, zugere
  - English: sugar (see there for further descendants)
  - Scots: succar
Norman: chucre
Walloon: souke
→ Aragonese: zucre
→ Asturian: zucre
→ Basque: azukre (influenced by Spanish azúcar)
→ Catalan: sucre
→ Galician: azucre (influenced by Spanish azúcar)
→ Lithuanian: cukrus
- → Latgalian: cukrys
- → Samogitian: sokros
→ Middle Breton: csucr
- Breton: sukr
→ Middle Dutch: suicker, suker
- Dutch: suiker
  - Afrikaans: suiker
  - → Munsee: šókəl
  - → Unami: shukël
- Limburgish: sókker
→ Occitan: sucre

References

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (sucre, supplement)

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