chas

chas

1. plural of cha

chas

1. plural of ki

Inherited from Old French chas, perhaps a derivation from Latin capsus (“sort of cage, hollow body”), related to capsa (“case, box”). The sense evolution could have been from "cage" to "bubble," as attested in the writings of Apicius (a Roman cookbook author), and then finally used to represent a small hollow object, or a cavity.

• IPA^(key): /ʃa/, /ʃɑ/

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• Homophone: chat

chas m (plural chas)

1. eye (of a needle)

• “chas”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• cash

• (Munster, Arann) IPA^(key): /xɑsˠ/
• (Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /xasˠ/

chas

1. Lenited form of cas.

chas

1. past analytic of cas

chas (Limousin)

1. to, at, in (a place)

chas m pl

1. plural of cha

• IPA^(key): /χaːs/

chas

1. Aspirate mutation of cas.

chas

1. Alternative form of 'chas
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Chas mhyne weery.

     I was very weary.

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 56