hiver

== English == === Etymology === From hive +‎ -er. === Noun === hiver (plural hivers) One who collects bees into a hive. == French == === Etymology === From Middle French hyver, from Old French iver, from Late Latin hībernum. === Pronunciation === (mute h) IPA(key): /i.vɛʁ/ (Quebec, formal) IPA(key): [i.vɛːʁ] (Quebec, informal) IPA(key): [i.veɪ̯ʁ], [i.vaɛ̯ʁ] (Louisiana) IPA(key): [i.væ(ɾ)] Rhymes: -ɛʁ Homophone: hivers === Noun === hiver m (plural hivers) winter ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Louisiana Creole: livè, ivèr, livær ==== See also ==== ==== See also ==== === Further reading === Littré, Émile (1873–1878), “hiver”, in Dictionnaire de la langue française, Paris: L. Hachette “hiver”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Yola == === Etymology === From Middle English hayfre, from Old English hēahfore. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈhai̯vər/ === Noun === hiver heifer === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 46