égllise

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Norman

Alternative forms

éghise (alternative Guernsey form)
êglyise, êglyîthe (Jersey)
eglyiz (Sark)

Etymology

From Old French eglise, from Latin ecclēsia, from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía, “gathering”).

Noun

égllise f (plural égllises)

(France, Guernsey) church
- 1883, George Métivier, ‘L'Nèr Cotillon d'Mussieu l'Curaï’, Patois Poems of the Channel Islands:
  D'l'égllise, ùn sèr, nou-z en r'venànt, / Chacùn souriait, parlafràndine [...].
  One evening we were coming home from church, everyone smiling and happy.
- 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎, pages 539-40:
  Alle ira sû le coquet de l'Eglise ramendaïr les braies des viers garçons.
  She will get a seat on the weather-cock of the church and mend old bachelor's breeches.
- 2006, Marie de Garis, “Enne p'tite ôlure”, in P'tites Lures Guernésiaises, Cromwell Press, published 2006, page 24:
  Ch'tait tànt mux qu'a counnissait son ch'min, pasqué oprès qu'all'avait passaïr l’éghise et rentrï dans les p'tites rues pour ciz ielle, a'n veyait goute.
  It was just as well that she knew her way, because after she had passed the church and entered the narrow lanes to her house, she couldn't see a thing.

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