criembre
Appearance
Old French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Classical Latin tremere, altered into a Gallo-Romance form *cremere, with the initial c- under the influence of the Celtic root *krit- (Breton kridien).[1]
Verb
[edit]criembre
- (transitive) to fear (have fear of)
Conjugation
[edit]This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has a stressed present stem criem distinct from the unstressed stem crem, as well as other irregularities. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of criembre (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
Descendants
[edit]- French: craindre
References
[edit]- ^ Etymology and history of “criembre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- “Appendix E: Irregular Verbs” in E. Einhorn (1974), Old French: A Concise Handbook, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 152
Categories:
- Old French terms inherited from Latin
- Old French terms derived from Latin
- Old French lemmas
- Old French verbs
- Old French transitive verbs
- Old French verbs with stem alternations
- Old French verbs with strong-st preterite
- Old French verbs with weak-i preterite
- Old French verbs with weak-u preterite
- Old French third group verbs
- Old French verbs ending in -re
- Old French irregular verbs