voillai
Bourguignon
verb
Definitions
- (intransitive) To stay up, sit up.
- (intransitive) To keep guard, keep watch.
- (intransitive) To look after, see to ( + ài); see to it that ( + ài çacque)
- (intransitive) To watch over (someone) ( + sur).
- (transitive) To keep watch over a sick person at night; to do a death wake for.
Etymology
Inherited from Old French veillier inherited from Latin vigilo, vigilare.
Origin
Latin
vigilo, vigilare
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *viglāre Latin
- vigilare Latin
- vigilo, vigilare Latin
- sorvegliare Italian
- vegliare Italian
- vegliatore Italian
- surveiller French
- veiller French
- veilleur French
- vigiler French
- surveillier Old French
- veillier Old French
- villi Norman
- veiller Middle French
- vigiar Old Portuguese
- velhar Old Occitan
- veye Mauritian Creole
- tôt Bourguignon
- tôtevillon Bourguignon
- veye Seychellois Creole