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French and word
Do you say chantey, as if the word were derived from the French word chanter, to sing, or do you say shanty and think of a roughly built cabin, which derives its name from the French-Canadian use of the word chantier, with one of its meanings given as a boat-yard??
In other languages having the meaning of the Latin word pavor, the derived words differ in meaning, e. g. as in the French anxiété and peur.
The town's name is attested as Aisincurt in 1175, derived from a Germanic masculine name Aizo, Aizino and the early Northern French word curt ' farm with a courtyard ' ( Late Latin cortem ).
The English word Alps derives from the French and Latin Alpes, which at one time was thought to be derived from the Latin albus (" white ").
The term Rococo was derived from the French word " rocaille ", which means pebbles and refers to the stones and shells used to decorate the interiors of caves.
The French word artiste ( which in French, simply means " artist ") has been imported into the English language where it means a performer ( frequently in Music Hall or Vaudeville ).
The English word ' artiste ' has thus, a narrower range of meaning than the word ' artiste ' in French.
The French, Portuguese, German, and Italian languages use cognates of the word " American ", in denoting " U. S. citizen ".
The English word amber derives from the Arabic anbar, via Medieval Latin ambar and Old French ambre.
Known to the Iranians by the Pahlavi compound word kah-ruba ( from kah “ straw ” plus rubay “ attract, snatch ,” referring to its electrical properties ), which entered Arabic as kahraba ' or kahraba, it too was called amber in Europe ( Old French and Middle English ambre ).
The word " armour " was introduced into use in the Middle Ages as a borrowing from the French.
The word " Accountant " is derived from the French word, which took its origin from the Latin word.
Abettor ( from to abet, Old French abeter, à and beter, to bait, urge dogs upon any one ; this word is probably of Scandinavian origin, meaning to cause to bite ), is a legal term implying one who instigates, encourages or assists another to commit an offence.
The English word " amputation " was first applied to surgery in the 17th century, possibly first in Peter Lowe's A discourse of the Whole Art of Chirurgerie ( published in either 1597 or 1612 ); his work was derived from 16th century French texts and early English writers also used the words " extirpation " ( 16th century French texts tended to use extirper ), " disarticulation ", and " dismemberment " ( from the Old French desmembrer and a more common term before the 17th century for limb loss or removal ), or simply " cutting ", but by the end of the 17th century " amputation " had come to dominate as the accepted medical term.
The word autumn comes from the Old French word autompne ( automne in modern French ), and was later normalised to the original Latin word autumnus.

French and owes
In its origins and its first golden age, no art owes quite as much to state power as French painting does.
The game, first known as crapaud ( a French word meaning " toad " in reference to the original style of play by people crouched over a floor or sidewalk ), reportedly owes its modern popularity to street craps.
The Merovingian dynasty owes its name to the semi-legendary Merovech ( Latinised as Meroveus or Merovius and in French as Merovée ), leader of the Salian Franks, and emerges into wider history with the victories of his son Childeric I ( reigned c. 457 – 481 ) against the Visigoths, Saxons, and Alemanni.
" To the enlightened views of the ministries of François Guizot and Adolphe Thiers under the citizen-king, and to the zeal and ability of Cousin in the work of organization, France owes what is best in her system of primary education ,-- a national interest which had been neglected under the French Revolution, the Empire and the Restoration ( see Expose, p. 17 ).
The South owes its unique heritage to a variety of sources, including Native Americans ; early European settlements of Spanish, English, German, French, Scotch-Irish, and Scottish ; importation of hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans ; historic dependence on slave labor ; the presence of a large proportion of African Americans in the population ; and the aftermath of the Confederacy after the Civil War.
Simone's art owes much to French manuscript illumination and ivory carving: examples of such art were brought to Siena in the fourteenth century by means of the Via Francigena, a main pilgrimage and trade route from Northern Europe to Rome.
Though originally set to an Italian libretto, Orfeo ed Euridice owes much to the genre of French opera, particularly in its use of accompanied recitative and a general absence of vocal virtuosity.
The city grew up along the roads that were built and owes much of its present form to the French.
The town's name also owes itself to one of Beresford's commanders, Sir John Moore, who died at the hands of French forces in the Battle of Corunna.
Saint-Maur-des-Fossés owes its name to an abbey founded in 638 by Queen Nanthild, regent for her son Clovis II, at a place called Fossati in Medieval Latin, Les Fossés in modern French, meaning " the moats ".
* 1609: The settlement of Quebec owes much to Samuel de Champlain, an explorer hired by the sieur de Monts, who became the foremost champion of French colonization.
The Place de Trocadéro owes its name to the fortified position in Puerto Real, on the Bay of Cadiz in the south of Spain, which was captured in the Battle of Trocadero by French troops led by Louis-Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, Charles X's son in 1823.
He owes his existence to a mistake by Malory, who took the Old French roy Peschour (" Fisher King ", a phrase that Malory never otherwise uses ) for a name rather than an epithet.
Bentham's writing ( whether in English or in French ) was notoriously convoluted and impenetrable, and according to one reviewer, writing in 1817, " t is indeed when he speaks by another ’ s lips, that he appears to most advantage ; and it to the graces of style which Mr Dumont has given him that he owes the reputation which he has acquired, and which is, from that cause, much greater in foreign countries than in his own.
These are often historical settings or settings from folklore or literature, such as ancient Egypt, ancient Rome, Renaissance Italy and Elizabethan England, Tom Sawyer's American South, Robin Hood's Sherwood Forest or a French Foreign Legion station in North Africa which owes something to Beau Geste.
Irish republicanism an offspring of the Volunteers of 1782, owes much to influences of both the American and French revolutions.
Winston Churchill's celebrated speech of 19 September 1946 to the Academic Youth in Zurich commended " the exertions of the Pan-European Union which owes so much to Count Coudenhove-Kalergi and which commanded the services of the famous French patriot and statesman Aristide Briand.
Closer to written French, this form owes its existence to the historic joining of the County of Nice to France in 1860.
In 1945 he published a paper declaring that " true French music owes nothing to Stravinsky ", though both composers drew heavily upon themes of ancient music in their work ; Jolivet and La jeune France rejected neoclassicism in favor of a less academic and more spiritual style of composition.
Morand owes a debt of gratitude to Grau for not revealing his connection to the French Resistance during the war.
It owes its " Tin Soldier Fortress " look to the celebration of victory over the third French revolutionary expedition to Ireland-the first decisive victory by Britain over the revolutionary republican movement, which was sweeping across the monarchies and their colonies at that time.
Giardino art style recalls the French ligne claire, while his writing owes a lot to famous hard boiled and spy story authors like Dashiell Hammett and John le Carré.

French and something
He sensed something precious in the perilous moment, something akin to the knowledge gained on his bicycle trip through the French countryside, a knowledge imprisoned in speechlessness.
To Poncelet's French contemporaries, it was something new.
The Duke's subtle moves and changes in emphasis during the battle – something his opponents failed to realise until it was too late – had caught the French in a tactical vice.
According to 2000 publishings by scholar Manuel Pedro Ferreira the models for the Cantigas might actually be something different than a traditional French rondeau.
Kidd and his men attacked the French island of Mariegalante, destroyed the only town, and looted the area, gathering for themselves something around 2, 000 pounds Sterling.
A die ( plural dice, from Old French dé, from Latin datum " something which is given or played ") is a small throwable object with multiple resting positions, used for generating random numbers.
This threatened to unite the Spanish and French kingdoms under the House of Bourbon – something unacceptable to England, the Dutch Republic, and Leopold I, who had himself a claim to the Spanish throne.
" However, the term grimoire also later developed into a figure of speech amongst the French indicating something that was hard or even impossible to understand.
* Machicolation: Machicolations ( from the French word machicoulis, implying a meaning of something like " neck-crusher ") consisted of openings between a wall and a parapet, formed by corbelling out the latter, so that the defenders might throw down stones, boiling water, and so forth, upon assailants below.
* Headcheese, a French Canadian female penguin, with whom Pokey has something of a love / hate relationship
There was a widespread recognition that something must be done, and " in 1858 Morse was awarded the sum of 400, 000 French francs ( equivalent to about $ 80, 000 at the time ) by the governments of France, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Piedmont, Russia, Sweden, Tuscany and Turkey, each of which contributed a share according to the number of Morse instruments in use in each country.
In 1793, the French minister Edmond-Charles Genêt caused a crisis when he tried to influence public opinion by appealing to the American people, something which Jefferson tried to stop.
This subjective experience is something that anyone can do — not scientific, objective observations but inner, subjective ones, what French philosopher Michel Henry calls " absolute subjectivity " or the " absolute phenomenological life ".
The conference at Calais was something of a political triumph, but even though the French government gave implicit support for Henry's re-marriage and Francis I himself held private conference with Anne, the French King maintained alliances with the Pope which he could not explicitly defy.
The absence of Amélie at the festival caused something of a controversy because of the warm welcome by the French media and audience in contrast with the reaction of the selector.
The uniquely 19th-century French sensibilities of Fauré and Chabrier are reflected in Sérénade grotesque, Pavane pour une infante défunte, and Menuet antique, while pieces such as Jeux d ' eau, and the String Quartet in F owe something to the innovations of Satie and Debussy.
Four bishops ( Henri Arnauld, Bishop of Angers ( brother of Antoine and Angélique Arnauld ); Nicolas Choart de Buzenval, Bishop of Beauvais ; François-Étienne Caulet, Bishop of Pamiers ; and Nicolas Pavillon, Bishop of Alet ) sided with Port-Royal, arguing that the French Assembly of the Clergy could not command French Catholics to subscribe to something which was not required by the pope.
Modern French conceptions of eroticism can be traced to The Enlightenment, when " in the eighteenth century, dictionaries defined the erotic as that which concerned love ... eroticism was the intrusion into the public sphere of something that was at base private ".
An exploit ( from the same word in the French language, meaning " achievement ", or " accomplishment ") is a piece of software, a chunk of data, or sequence of commands that take advantage of a software " bug " or " glitch " in order to cause unintended or unanticipated behavior to occur on computer software, hardware, or something electronic ( usually computerized ).
It is the oblique case of the nominative trobaire “ composer ”, related to trobar “ to compose, to discuss, to invent ” cognative with Old French trover “ to compose something in verses ” ( Wace, Brut, editions I. Arnold, 3342 ) “ to invent, to create ” ( E. Deschamps, Poésies morales et historiques, 261 in T .- L .) > modern French trouver “ to find ”, first mentioned as trover with the close signification " to meet, to discover " in the 10th and 11th century, before the other one.

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