relayer
English
Etymology 1
relay + -er
Noun
relayer (plural relayers)
- One who, or that which, relays.
- An athlete who takes part in a relay race.
Translations
athlete in a relay race
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Etymology 2
re- + layer
Verb
relayer (third-person singular simple present relayers, present participle relayering, simple past and past participle relayered)
- To layer again.
French
Etymology
re- + laier (“old dialect term: to leave”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.lɛ.je/, /ʁə.le.je/
Audio (file)
Verb
relayer
- (historical, intransitive) to relay, change horses
- 1874, Barbey d'Aurevilly, ‘Le Rideau cramoisi’, Les Diaboliques:
- La rue, – où passaient chaque nuit deux diligences en sens inverses […] qui toutes deux s'arrêtaient à l’Hôtel de la Poste pour relayer, – la rue était silencieuse comme le fond d'un puits.
- The street – where every night two carriages passed in opposite directions, both of which stopped at the Hôtel de la Poste to change horses – the street was as silent as the bottom of a well.
- 1874, Barbey d'Aurevilly, ‘Le Rideau cramoisi’, Les Diaboliques:
- (transitive) to relieve, take over from
- (transitive) to replace
- (transitive) to transmit, relay (information)
- (reflexive) to take turns, to alternate
Conjugation
This is a regular -er verb as far as pronunciation is concerned, but as with other verbs in -ayer (such as payer and essayer, the <y> of its stem may optionally be written as <i> when it precedes a silent <e> (compare verbs in -eyer, which never have this spelling change, and verbs in -oyer and -uyer, which always have it; verbs in -ayer belong to either group, according to the writer's preference).
Conjugation of relayer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | relayer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | relayant /ʁə.lɛ.jɑ̃/ or /ʁə.le.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | relayé /ʁə.lɛ.je/ or /ʁə.le.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | relaye or relaie /ʁə.lɛj/ or /ʁə.lɛ/ | relayes or relaies /ʁə.lɛj/ or /ʁə.lɛ/ | relaye or relaie /ʁə.lɛj/ or /ʁə.lɛ/ | relayons /ʁə.lɛ.jɔ̃/ or /ʁə.le.jɔ̃/ | relayez /ʁə.lɛ.je/ or /ʁə.le.je/ | relayent or relaient /ʁə.lɛj/ or /ʁə.lɛ/ |
| imperfect | relayais /ʁə.lɛ.jɛ/ or /ʁə.le.jɛ/ | relayais /ʁə.lɛ.jɛ/ or /ʁə.le.jɛ/ | relayait /ʁə.lɛ.jɛ/ or /ʁə.le.jɛ/ | relayions /ʁə.lɛj.jɔ̃/ | relayiez /ʁə.lɛj.je/ | relayaient /ʁə.lɛ.jɛ/ or /ʁə.le.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | relayai /ʁə.lɛ.je/ or /ʁə.le.je/ | relayas /ʁə.lɛ.ja/ or /ʁə.le.ja/ | relaya /ʁə.lɛ.ja/ or /ʁə.le.ja/ | relayâmes /ʁə.lɛ.jam/ or /ʁə.le.jam/ | relayâtes /ʁə.lɛ.jat/ or /ʁə.le.jat/ | relayèrent /ʁə.lɛ.jɛʁ/ or /ʁə.le.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | relayerai or relaierai /ʁə.lɛj.ʁe/ or /ʁə.lɛ.ʁe/ or /ʁə.le.ʁe/ | relayeras or relaieras /ʁə.lɛj.ʁa/ or /ʁə.lɛ.ʁa/ or /ʁə.le.ʁa/ | relayera or relaiera /ʁə.lɛj.ʁa/ or /ʁə.lɛ.ʁa/ or /ʁə.le.ʁa/ | relayerons or relaierons /ʁə.lɛj.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.lɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.le.ʁɔ̃/ | relayerez or relaierez /ʁə.lɛj.ʁe/ or /ʁə.lɛ.ʁe/ or /ʁə.le.ʁe/ | relayeront or relaieront /ʁə.lɛj.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.lɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.le.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | relayerais or relaierais /ʁə.lɛj.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.lɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.le.ʁɛ/ | relayerais or relaierais /ʁə.lɛj.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.lɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.le.ʁɛ/ | relayerait or relaierait /ʁə.lɛj.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.lɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.le.ʁɛ/ | relayerions or relaierions /ʁə.lɛ.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.le.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.lɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.le.ʁjɔ̃/ | relayeriez or relaieriez /ʁə.lɛ.jə.ʁje/ or /ʁə.le.jə.ʁje/ or /ʁə.lɛ.ʁje/ or /ʁə.le.ʁje/ | relayeraient or relaieraient /ʁə.lɛj.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.lɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.le.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | relaye or relaie /ʁə.lɛj/ or /ʁə.lɛ/ | relayes or relaies /ʁə.lɛj/ or /ʁə.lɛ/ | relaye or relaie /ʁə.lɛj/ or /ʁə.lɛ/ | relayions /ʁə.lɛj.jɔ̃/ | relayiez /ʁə.lɛj.je/ | relayent or relaient /ʁə.lɛj/ or /ʁə.lɛ/ |
| imperfect2 | relayasse /ʁə.lɛ.jas/ or /ʁə.le.jas/ | relayasses /ʁə.lɛ.jas/ or /ʁə.le.jas/ | relayât /ʁə.lɛ.ja/ or /ʁə.le.ja/ | relayassions /ʁə.lɛ.ja.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.le.ja.sjɔ̃/ | relayassiez /ʁə.lɛ.ja.sje/ or /ʁə.le.ja.sje/ | relayassent /ʁə.lɛ.jas/ or /ʁə.le.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | relaye or relaie /ʁə.lɛj/ or /ʁə.lɛ/ | — | relayons /ʁə.lɛ.jɔ̃/ or /ʁə.le.jɔ̃/ | relayez /ʁə.lɛ.je/ or /ʁə.le.je/ | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “relayer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.