different between chief vs che

English

Etymology

From Middle English chef, borrowed from Old French chief (“leader”), from Vulgar Latin capus (from which also captain, chieftain), from Latin caput (“head”) (English cap (“head covering”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kauput- (English head).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?i?f/
• Rhymes: -i?f

Noun

chief (plural chiefs)

2. A leader or head of a group of people, organisation, etc. [from 13th c.]
   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 4:

     My father, Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa, was a chief by both blood and custom.

   All firefighters report to the fire chief.

3. (heraldry) The top part of a shield or escutcheon; more specifically, an ordinary consisting of the upper part of the field cut off by a horizontal line, generally occupying the top third. [from 15th c.]
   • 1889, Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry:

     When the Chief is Charged with any figure, in blazon it is said to be "On a Chief".

4. The principal part or top of anything.
5. An informal term of address, sometimes ironic.

   Hey, chief.

Synonyms

• chieftain
• chiefess (female chief)
• See also Thesaurus:boss

Derived terms

Pages starting with “chief”.

Related terms

• captain
• chef
• chieftain

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (ch?fu)
• ? Swahili: chifu

Translations

Adjective

chief (comparative chiefer or more chief, superlative chiefest or most chief)

1. Primary; principal.
2. (Scotland) Intimate, friendly.
   • 2006, James Robertson: The Testament of Gideon Mack, p 324:

     'You’re doing it because she was your friend, not because she was a parishioner, and certainly not because of the Declaratory Articles,' Macmurray said, pushing himself forward on his seat. 'Everybody knows how chief you and she were. It was an unfitting relationship for a minister while she was alive, and it is equally unfitting for you to do her a favour like this now she's dead.'

Translations

Verb

chief (third-person singular simple present chiefs, present participle chiefing, simple past and past participle chiefed)

1. (US, slang) To smoke cannabis.
   • 2012, Marquis "Cream" Cureton, When the Smoke Clears (page 268)

     He chiefed on the bud like a pro, taking long deep hits and holding it within until he had inhaled as much of the weed smoke as he could.

See also

• chef

Anagrams

• cheif, fiche, fiché

Middle English

Noun

chief

1. Alternative form of chef

Adjective

chief

1. Alternative form of chef

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French chief.

Noun

chief m (plural chiefs)

1. head

Descendants

• French: chef (see there for further descendants)

Old French

Alternative forms

• cap (La Vie de Saint Léger, circa 980)
• chef, cief

Etymology

First known attestation 881 in The Sequence of Saint Eulalia. From Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?je?f/

Noun

chief m (oblique plural chiés, nominative singular chiés, nominative plural chief)

1. (anatomy) head
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Le chief li desarme et la face.

     He exposed his head and his face.

2. leader, chief
3. front (foremost side of something)

Descendants

• Middle French: chief
  • French: chef (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: chef
• ? Middle English: chef
  • English: chief
  • Scots: chief
• ? Old Spanish: xefe
  • Spanish: jefe, gefe
    • ? English: jefe
    • ? Cebuano: hepe
  • ? Asturian: xefe
  • ? Galician: xefe
  • ? Portuguese: chefe

Aromanian

Etymology

From Latin quod. Compare Romanian c?.

Conjunction

che

1. Alternative form of cã

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Russian ?? (?e).

Noun

che (plural ches)

1. The letter ?, ?.

Translations

Etymology 2

A modification of ich, iche from Middle English ich (“I”, pronoun). Doublet of utchy.

Pronoun

che

1. (personal, obsolete) I.

Anagrams

• ECH, EHC

Atong (India)

Etymology

From Hindi ?? (cha?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??e/

Numeral

che (Bengali script ??)

1. six

Synonyms

• korok
• siks / sik

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. Stated in Appendix 3.

Esperanto

Preposition

che

1. H-system spelling of ?e

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese che (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria); from an inflected form of Latin t?: the accusative te is from Latin t?, the dative ti from tibi, the dative che emerged by metanalysis from the contraction of te and the article.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??e/

Pronoun

che

1. dative of ti

Usage notes

The personal pronoun can also be used as a "dative of solidarity" or "interesse" in colloquial register, meaning that either the interlocutor or the emissor is inserted into the action even when they don't have a direct intervention, so either to gain the interlocutor sympathy of to show personal interest:

1. • c1295, R. Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I. E. O. P. F., page 126:

     Disse entõ o conde a el rey dom Garçia: -Rey, nõ as por que teer n?h?u destes que comigo som presos, que por mj? soo aueras quantos y som, et nõ lles faças n?h?u mal, ca elles nõ che am y culpa n?h?a.

     Then the count said to king Don García: «King, you don't have to keep as prisoners none of the ones that are with me, because just by me you'll find out how many they are, and don't yo do them any harm, because they are not to blame [to you] on this»

   • 1596, anonymous, Diálogo de Alberte e Bieito:

     eche cousa de chorar

     It is [to you] a thing for crying

References

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

Guaraní

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e/

Pronoun

che

1. I, me

See also

Determiner

che

1. my

   che angir? — "my friend"

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto ?e, from French chez.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??e/, /t???/

Preposition

che

1. at, in, to (someone in his or her house, home or place), with (a people, in respect of their customs)

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin quod.

Conjunction

che

1. that
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 68:

     Nu’ iè truvato spada, che me talgia

     I have not found a sword that would cut me

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin quid, from Proto-Indo-European *k?id, compare *k?is.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ke/
• Hyphenation: che
• Rhymes: -e

Pronoun

che

1. (interrogative) what; which

   Synonyms: cosa, che cosa

2. (relative) who; whom; which; nominative and accusative case

   Synonym: il quale

See also

• cui (relative; dative and prepositional case)

Etymology 2

From Latin quod, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *k?od.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ke/ (unstressed)
• Hyphenation: che
• Rhymes: -e

Conjunction

che

1. that
2. than
3. when
4. let, may

Determiner

che

1. some (a remarkable); what (intensifier to begin a sentence)

References

Japanese

Romanization

che

1. R?maji transcription of ??
2. R?maji transcription of ??

Ladin

Conjunction

che

1. that

Derived terms

• coche

Lombard

Etymology

Akin to Italian che, from Latin quid.

Pronoun

che

1. what

Mandarin

Romanization

che

1. Nonstandard spelling of ch?.
2. Nonstandard spelling of ch?.
3. Nonstandard spelling of chè.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Middle English

Pronoun

che

1. Alternative form of sche

Picard

Determiner

che m

1. this

Romagnol

Conjunction

che

1. that; which

Romansch

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Conjunction

che

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) that

Alternative forms

• (Sutsilvan) ca, c'
• (Surmiran) tgi
• (Puter, Vallader) cha

Pronoun

che

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) who, whom

Alternative forms

• (Sutsilvan) tge
• (Surmiran) tgi
• (Puter, Vallader) cha

Etymology 2

From Latin quid.

Pronoun

che

1. (Puter, Vallader) what

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) tge
• (Sursilvan) tgei

Etymology 3

From Latin quod.

Conjunction

che

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) than

Alternative forms

• (Sutsilvan) ca
• (Surmiran) tgi
• (Puter) cu
• (Vallader) co

South Slavey

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t????/

Noun

che

1. Fort Liard form of tse

References

• Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, ?ISBN, page 11

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??e/, [?t??e]

Etymology 1

Noun

che f (plural ches)

1. Name of the digraph Ch/ch, previously was considered a letter

Derived terms

• che vaqueira

Etymology 2

Interjection

che

1. (Argentine, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Valencia) hey

Descendants

• Portuguese: tchê

Noun

che m or f (plural che)

1. (colloquial, Chile) Argentinian person

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [t?????]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [t?????]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [c???]

Verb

che • (?, ????, ????, ????)

1. to cover
2. (literally) to hide

Derived terms