cheminee

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See also: cheminée

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Late Latin camīnāta (“room with a chimney”).

Pronunciation

(classical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃəmiˈneːə/, /t͡ʃi-/, /t͡ʃa-/, /-mən-/, (northern) /kə-/

Noun

cheminee oblique singular, f (oblique plural cheminees, nominative singular cheminee, nominative plural cheminees)

chimney (vent used to allow smoke and other fumes to escape)

Descendants

Middle French: cheminée
- French: cheminée (see there for further descendants)
- → Occitan: chimenèia, chaminèia ⇒ cheminièra, chiminièra (ending replaced with -ièra)
  - → Italian: ciminiera
Norman: cheunm'née, chimenaée; chim'naïe; chimnee
Picard: c'minée

Borrowings:

→ Cypriot Greek: τζημνία (tzimnía)
→ Middle English: chymeney
- English: chimney
- Scots: chimley
- Yola: gimlie
- → Welsh: simnai
→ Italy:
- Italian: sciaminea (archaic or Tuscan), cimineja (Siena)
- Ligurian: ciminea
→ Iberia:
- Old Catalan: xemenea
  - Catalan: xemeneia
- Old Galician-Portuguese:
  - Galician: cheminea
  - Portuguese: chaminé
- Old Spanish: cheminea, chimenea
  - Spanish: chimenea
→ Sicilian: ciminìa (see there for further descendants)

References

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (cheminee, supplement)
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “camīnus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 139

^ Davy, J. and Panayotou, A. (1997) “French loans in Cypriot Greek,” Actes du colloque tenu à Lyon, p. 115. https://www.persee.fr/doc/mom_1274-6525_2000_act_31_1_1849#mom_1274-6525_2000_act_31_1_T1_0125_0000.

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