gouverneur
Appearance
See also: Gouverneur
Dutch
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- goeverneur (before 1996)
Etymology
[edit]From Middle Dutch gouverneur, borrowed from Middle French gouverneur.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gouverneur m (plural gouverneurs, diminutive gouverneurtje n)
- governor (e.g. of a province)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Afrikaans: goewerneur
- Negerhollands: guwerneer
- → Lokono: gouverneur
- → Indonesian: gubernur
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French gouverneur, from Old French gouvreneur, from Latin gubernātōrem, from Ancient Greek κυβερνήτης (kubernḗtēs, “steersman, pilot, guide”), from κυβερνάω (kubernáō, “to steer, to drive, to guide, to act as a pilot”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gouverneur m (plural gouverneurs, feminine gouverneure or gouverneuse)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- gouvernement (“government”)
Descendants
[edit]- Antillean Creole: gouvènè
- Louisiana Creole: gouvènœr, gouvnœr, gouvèrnè, gouvèrnen, gouvèrnèr
- Seychellois Creole: gouverner
- → Czech: guvernér
- → Danish: guvernør
- → Estonian: kuberner
- → Faroese: guvernørur
- → German: Gouverneur
- → Luxembourgish: Gouverneur
- → Macedonian: гувернер (guverner)
- → Norwegian:
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Slovak: guvernér
- → Slovene: guverner
- → Swedish: guvernör
- → Finnish: kuvernööri
- → Turkish: guvernör
Further reading
[edit]- “gouverneur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French gouvreneur.
Noun
[edit]gouverneur m (plural gouverneurs)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- French: gouverneur (see there for further descendants)
- → Middle Dutch: gouverneur
- Dutch: gouverneur, goeverneur (before 1996)
- Afrikaans: goewerneur
- Negerhollands: guwerneer
- → Lokono: gouverneur
- → Indonesian: gubernur
- Limburgish: goevernäör
- Dutch: gouverneur, goeverneur (before 1996)
- → German: Gouverneur
Categories:
- Dutch terms inherited from Middle Dutch
- Dutch terms derived from Middle Dutch
- Dutch terms borrowed from Middle French
- Dutch terms derived from Middle French
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Dutch terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Dutch/øːr
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -s
- Dutch masculine nouns
- French terms inherited from Middle French
- French terms derived from Middle French
- French terms inherited from Old French
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms inherited from Latin
- French terms derived from Latin
- French terms derived from Ancient Greek
- French 3-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- Middle French terms inherited from Old French
- Middle French terms derived from Old French
- Middle French lemmas
- Middle French nouns
- Middle French masculine nouns
- Middle French countable nouns