different between causey vs causer

English

Alternative forms

• cauchie

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman caucie, chaucee et al., from Late Latin calce?ta. In Guernsey use after Guernsey Norman cauchie.

Noun

causey (plural causeys)

1. (obsolete) An embankment holding in water; a dam. [14th-18th c.]
2. (now dialectal) A causeway across marshy ground, an area of sea etc.
   • c. 1460, Merlin, vol. II:

     than com Soriondes with all his peple that was so grete, and sette ouer the cauchie so rudely as horse myght renne.

   • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 177:

     I could see through the open doorway some fishermen in guernseys sitting on the grass listening, and a boat was drawn up on the shingle and others moored to the cauchie.

3. (now dialectal) A paved path or highway; a street, or the part of a street paved with paving or cobbles as opposed to flagstones.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, X:

     Satan went down The Causey to Hell Gate.

Anagrams

• Ayscue, Cayuse, cayuse

English

Etymology

cause +? -er

Pronunciation

Noun

causer (plural causers)

1. someone or something that causes or produces an effect.

Synonyms

• author
• originator
• source

References

• The New International Webster's Comprehensive Dictionary of the English Language, Encyclopedic Edition (2003). ?ISBN

Anagrams

• SACEUR, Surace, cesura, saucer

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko.ze/
• Homophones: causai, causé, causée, causées, causés, causez

Etymology 1

From cause +? -er.

Verb

causer

1. to cause (be the cause of)

   Synonym: provoquer

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin caus?r?.

Verb

causer

1. (informal, transitive) to speak (a language)

   Synonym: parler

2. (informal, intransitive) to speak, talk, chat; to be waffling on about

Conjugation

Anagrams

• creusa, sucera

Further reading

• “causer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

causer

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of causor