chien

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).

• IPA^(key): /ʃjɛ̃/

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chien m (plural chiens, feminine chienne)

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

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

1. (Louisiana) greedy, stingy

• “chien” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• chine, Chine, chiné
• niche, niché

chien

1. Rōmaji transcription of ちえん

From Old French chien, from Latin canis, canem.

chien m (plural chiens)

1. dog (animal)

• French: chien

From Latin canis, canem.

• IPA^(key): /tʃi̯ẽn/
• Rhymes: -ẽn

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

1. dog (animal)

• Middle French: chien
  • French: chien
• Bourguignon: chein
• Norman: qùyin (France), tchian
• Picard: tchien, kien, quien
• Tourangeau: chian
• Walloon: tchén

chien

1. before

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.