cheri
See also: Cheri, chéri, and cherī
Mauritian Creole
Etymology
From French chéri
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃeʁi/
Noun
cheri
- darling, sweetheart
- Synonym: gate
Middle English
cheries
Alternative forms
- chiri, chirie, chyry, chere, cherie, chery
Etymology
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman cheri, from Old Northern French cherise (“cherry”), from Vulgar Latin ceresia, a reinterpretation of the neuter plural of Late Latin ceresium, from Latin cerasium (cerasum, cerasus (“cherry tree”)), from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry fruit”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), and ultimately possibly derived from a language of Asia Minor.Displaced Old English ciris (also from Vulgar Latin ceresia), which died out after the Norman invasion and was replaced by the French-derived word.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtʃɛriː/, /ˈtʃiriː/
Noun
cheri (plural cheries)
- cherry (fruit)
- (rare) cherry tree[2]
Descendants
- English: cherry (see there for further descendants)
- Scots: chirry, chery, cherrie, cherry
- → Middle Irish: silín, sirín
- Irish: silín
- Manx: shillish
- Scottish Gaelic: sirist
References
- “cheri” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “cherī, n.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-19.
Romani
Noun
cheri m (plural chera)
- sky
Welsh
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /ˈχɛrɪ/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈχeːri/, /ˈχɛri/
Verb
cheri
- Aspirate mutation of ceri.