gauchir
French
verb
Definitions
- (intransitive) to dodge
- (intransitive) to speak or act deceptively
- (ambitransitive) to warp, buckle, distort, bend
- (transitive) to flavour with left-oriented political views
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French gauchir inherited from Old French gauchir derived from Frankish *wenkijan, *wankijan (falter, sway) suffix from French gauche (left, awkward, clumsy).
Origin
French
gauche
Gloss
left, awkward, clumsy
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
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Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- gauche English
- dégauchir French
- gauchard French
- gauche French
- gauchement French
- gaucher French
- gauchisme French
- gauchissement French
- gauchiste French
- ultragauche French
- *wankijaną Proto-Germanic
- gaucher Old French
- gauchier Old French
- gauchir Old French
- guenchir Old French
- gauchir Middle French
- *wenkijan, *wankijan Frankish