cheri

From French chéri.

• IPA^(key): /ʃeɰi/

cheri

1. darling, sweetheart

   Synonym: gate

• chiri, chirie, chyry, chere, cherie, chery

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman cheri, from Old Northern French cherise (“cherry”), from Vulgar Latin ceresia, a reinterpretation of the neuter plural of Late Latin ceresium, from Latin cerasium (cerasum, cerasus (“cherry tree”)), from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry fruit”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), and ultimately possibly derived from a language of Asia Minor. Displaced Old English ciris (also from Vulgar Latin ceresia), which died out after the Norman invasion and was replaced by the French-derived word.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɛriː/, /ˈtʃiriː/

cheri (plural cheries)

1. cherry (fruit)
2. (rare) cherry tree^[2]

• English: cherry (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: chirry, chery, cherrie, cherry
• → Middle Irish: silín, sirín
  • Irish: silín
  • Manx: shillish
  • Scottish Gaelic: sirist

cheri m (plural chera)

1. sky

Borrowed from English cherry.

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cheri (n class, plural cheri)

1. cherry

• mcheri

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈχɛrɪ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈχeːri/, /ˈχɛri/

cheri

1. Aspirate mutation of ceri.