cheminee

== Old French == === Alternative forms === chiminee, chaminee, cheiminee, cemminee chimenee, chamenee, chemenee chimeneie (Anglo-Norman); queminee (northern) === Etymology === From Late Latin camīnāta (“room with a chimney”). === Pronunciation === (classical) IPA(key): /t͡ʃəmiˈneːə/, /t͡ʃi-/, /t͡ʃa-/, /-mən-/, (northern) /kə-/ === Noun === cheminee oblique singular, f (oblique plural cheminees, nominative singular cheminee, nominative plural cheminees) chimney (vent used to allow smoke and other fumes to escape) ==== Descendants ==== Middle French: cheminée French: cheminée (see there for further descendants) → Occitan: chimenèia, chaminèia ⇒ cheminièra, chiminièra (ending replaced with -ièra) → Italian: ciminiera Norman: cheunm'née, chimenaée, chim'naïe, chimnee Picard: c'minée Borrowings: ==== References ==== Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “cheminee”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC. Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “camīnus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 139