cheance

== Middle English == === Noun === cheance alternative form of chaunce == Old French == === Alternative forms === chaance, chance, chaiance, cheanse, cheanz cheaunce, chaaunce, chaunce, chauns caanche, canche, keanche caance, cance === Etymology === From Vulgar Latin *cadentia (“falling”), from Latin cadēns, from cadō (“fall”). === Pronunciation === (classical) IPA(key): /tʃəˈantsə/, /tʃa-/, (northern) /kəˈantʃə/, /ka-/, /-tsə/ (late) IPA(key): /ˈʃansə/, (northern) /ˈkanʃə/, /ˈkau̯-/, /-sə/, (Anglo-Norman hybrid?) /ˈtʃau̯nsə/ === Noun === cheance oblique singular, f (oblique plural cheances, nominative singular cheance, nominative plural cheances) fall, drop, plunge chance; fate (rare) a throw of a die ==== Related terms ==== cheoir ==== Descendants ==== Champenois: chance (Troyen), taince (Rémois) French: chance (see there for further descendants) Champenois: tchaince Norman: caunche Picard: canche Walloon: tchance → Middle Dutch: canse Dutch: kans → Middle English: chaunce, chance, chanse, chauns, chaunse, chaunche, cheance, cheaunce, cheiance, schaunce, chanse, chaunsse, chawnce (Late Middle English)English: chance (archaic chaunce)→ Icelandic: séns→ Japanese: チャンスScots: chance→ Middle Welsh: siawnsWelsh: siawns === References === cheance on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “cheance”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.