çucre

Old French

Alternative forms

chucre, sucre, zucre

Etymology

From Old Italian zucchero (or another vernacular of Italy),[1] from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), from Persian (šakar), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā, “ground or candied sugar”, originally “grit, gravel”); see sugar for more details.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sykɾə/

Noun

çucre oblique singular, m (oblique plural çucres, nominative singular çucres, nominative plural çucre)

sugar (sweet crystalized powder)

Descendants

Anglo-Norman: chucre
- → Cornish: sugra
- → Middle Irish: siúcra
  - Irish: siúcra
  - Manx: shugyr
  - Scottish Gaelic: siùcar
- → Welsh: siwgr
Middle French: sucre
- French: sucre
  - Haitian Creole: sik
  - →⇒ Danish: sucrose
  - →⇒ English: sucrose
  - → Malecite-Passamaquoddy: sukol (or from English)
  - → Mango: súkàr
  - → Rade: sĭk
- → Middle English: sugre, sewgyr, succer, succere, sucere, sucre, suger, sugowr, sugr, sugur, sugure, sugyr, sugyre, sukyr, zugere, zuker, zukur
  - English: sugar (see there for further descendants)
  - Scots: succar
Norman: chucre
Walloon: souke
→ Lithuanian: cukrus
- → Latgalian: cukrys
- → Samogitian: sokros
→ Middle Breton: csucr
- Breton: sukr
→ Middle Dutch: suicker, suker
- Dutch: suiker
  - Afrikaans: suiker
    - → Sotho: tswekere
    - → Xhosa: iswekile
  - Berbice Creole Dutch: sikri
  - Negerhollands: sukker, schukker, suku
    - → Virgin Islands Creole: suku, sukut (dated)
  - Skepi Creole Dutch: sukuru
  - → Aukan: sukuu
  - → Munsee: shóokal
  - → Papiamentu: panseiku
  - → Saramaccan: súki
  - → Sranan Tongo: sukru, suiker
    - → Lokono: shikarho
    - → Caribbean Hindustani: sukru
    - → Kari'na: sukuru, sukulu
  - → Unami: shukël (or from English)
- Limburgish: sókker

References

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (sucre, supplement)

Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “sukkar”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 19: Orientalia, page 163

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