different between oyer vs noyer

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman oyer (“hear”).

Noun

oyer (uncountable)

1. (law, archaic) A hearing in a civil case which is based on the content of a document, in which the plaintiff is required to produce the document.

Usage notes

• A defendant who formally asks for oyer is said to crave oyer.

Related terms

• oyer and terminer

Anagrams

• Roye, yero, yore

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin aud?re, present active infinitive of audi?.

Verb

oyer

1. to hear
2. to listen

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Related terms

• oyíu

Old French

Verb

oyer

1. Alternative form of oïr

English

Noun

noyer (plural noyers)

1. (obsolete) An annoyer.
   • 1573, Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry

     The North is a noyer to grass of all suites, / The East a destroyer to herb and all fruits.

Anagrams

• Roney, onery, yeron

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nwa.je/
• Homophones: noyers, noyé, noyés, noyée, noyées, noyai, noyez

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin nuc?rius (“nut tree”) from Classical Latin nux. Compare Spanish noguera, Portuguese nogueira, Catalan noguera, Occitan noguièr. Equivalent to noix +? -ier.

Noun

noyer m (plural noyers)

1. walnut (tree)

Related terms

• noix (walnut, the nut)

Etymology 2

From Old French noier, neier, from Latin nec?re, present active infinitive of nec? (“kill”). The sense of "to drown" can be found in other Romance cognates; compare Italian annegare, Spanish anegar, Romanian îneca.

Verb

noyer

1. (reflexive, literally and figuratively) To drown; to drown oneself

   Elle s'est noyée dans l'océan.

   She drowned in the ocean.

2. (transitive, literally and figuratively) To drown

   J'ai noyé mon chien dans le fleuve.

   I drowned my dog in the river.
3. (transitive, cooking) To water down

   Il faut noyer le vin avec de l'eau.

   You must water down the wine.

Conjugation

This verb is part of a large group of -er verbs that conjugate like employer or ennuyer. These verbs always replace the ‘y’ with an ‘i’ before a silent ‘e’.

This verb is part of a large group of -er verbs that conjugate like employer or ennuyer. These verbs always replace the ‘y’ with an ‘i’ before a silent ‘e’.

Derived terms

Further reading

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