cheance

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Middle English

Noun

cheance

Alternative form of chaunce

Old French

Alternative forms

chaance, chance, chaiance, cheanse, cheanz
cheaunce, chaaunce, chaunce, chauns
caanche, canche, keanche
caance, cance

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *cadentia (“falling”), from Latin cadēns, from cadō (“fall”).

Pronunciation

(classical) IPA^(key): /tʃəˈantsə/, /tʃa-/, (northern) /kəˈantʃə/, /ka-/, /-tsə/
(late) IPA^(key): /ˈʃansə/, (northern) /ˈkanʃə/, /ˈkau̯-/, /-sə/, (Anglo-Norman hybrid?) /ˈtʃau̯nsə/

Noun

cheance oblique singular, f (oblique plural cheances, nominative singular cheance, nominative plural cheances)

fall, drop, plunge
chance; fate
(rare) a throw of a die

Related terms

cheoir

Descendants

Champenois: chance (Troyen), taince (Rémois)
French: chance (see there for further descendants)
Champenois: tchaince
Norman: caunche
Picard: canche
Walloon: tchance
→ Middle Dutch: canse
- Dutch: kans
→ Middle English: chaunce, chance, chanse, chauns, chaunse, chaunche, cheance, cheaunce, cheiance, schaunce, chanse, chaunsse, chawnce (Late Middle English)
- English: chance (archaic chaunce)
  - → Japanese: チャンス
- Scots: chance

References

cheance on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (cheance, supplement)

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