different between caer vs chester

Asturian

Verb

caer

1. Alternative form of cayer

Galician

Alternative forms

• caír

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese caer, from Vulgar Latin *cad?re, from Latin cadere, present active infinitive of cad?, from Proto-Italic *kad?, from Proto-Indo-European *?h?d- (“to fall”). Cognate with Portuguese cair and Spanish caer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?e?/

Verb

caer (first-person singular present caio, first-person singular preterite caín, past participle caído)

1. (intransitive) to fall, fall off, fall down
2. (of a time) to fall on; to occur
3. to fall; to decline; to collapse
4. to fall; to die in battle

Conjugation

• Note: ca- are changed to cai- before back vowels (a, o).

Derived terms

Related terms

References

• “caer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “caer” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “caer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “caer” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “caer” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Spanish

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *cad?re, from Latin cadere, present active infinitive of cad?, from Proto-Italic *kad?, from Proto-Indo-European *?h?d- (“to fall”). Cognate with Portuguese cair.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?e?/, [ka?e?]

Verb

caer (first-person singular present caigo, first-person singular preterite caí, past participle caído)

1. (intransitive, reflexive) to fall (to move to a lower position due to gravity)
2. (intransitive) to fall (to come down, to drop, to descend)

3. (intransitive, reflexive) to fall down, to collapse (to fall to the ground)
4. (intransitive, reflexive) to fall out (to come out of something by falling)

5. (intransitive) to fall into, to fall for; to be ensnared by

6. (intransitive) to fall into (to enter a negative state)
7. (intransitive) to fall, to collapse (to be overthrown or defeated)

8. (intransitive) to get (to understand)

9. (intransitive) to be granted or awarded

10. (intransitive) to fall under (to belong to for purposes of categorization)
11. (intransitive) to fall on (to occur on a particular day)

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

Anagrams

• acre, arce, cera, crea

References

• “caer” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ka???r/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /kai?r/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic *ka?r (“fort, fortified town”) (compare Cornish ker (“fort”), Breton kêr (“town, city”)), from Proto-Celtic *kagros (“fort”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kag?- (“take, seize”). Related to cae (“field”).

Noun

caer f (plural caerau or caeroedd or ceyrydd)

1. fort, fortress, enclosed stronghold, castle, fortress, citadel, fortified town or city
2. wall, rampart, bulwark
3. twill

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Alternative forms

• caffer

Verb

caer

1. (literary) impersonal imperative of cael

Mutation

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “caer”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Finnish

Etymology

< German Chesterkäse (“Cheshire cheese”)

Noun

chester

1. (rare) Synonym of cheshire (Cheshire cheese).

Declension