cllâf

See also: cla, CLA, clã, and -cla

Franco-Provençal

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• cla, clia (Old Bressan)
  • çlyô, lyô, clyâ (Bressan)
• cla (Old Dauphinois)
• clar (Old Fribourgeois)
  • hyâ (Fribourgeois)
• cla (Old Lyonnais)
• clla (Valdôtain)
• clâf (ORB, narrow)
  • clâ (Piemontais)
  • shlô (Valaisan)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin clāvis.

Noun

cllâf f (plural cllâfs) (ORB, broad)

1. key

Notes

Silent ⟨f⟩ in accordance with French clef.

References

• clé in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• cllâf in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Further information

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 889: “la chiave; le chiavi” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France^[1] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 301: “clé” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “clavis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 764