different between relayer vs liaison

English

Etymology 1

relay +? -er

Noun

relayer (plural relayers)

1. One who, or that which, relays.
2. An athlete who takes part in a relay race.

Translations

Etymology 2

re- +? layer

Verb

relayer (third-person singular simple present relayers, present participle relayering, simple past and past participle relayered)

1. To layer again.

French

Etymology

re- +? laier (“old dialect term: to leave”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.l?.je/, /??.le.je/

Verb

relayer

1. (historical, intransitive) to relay, change horses
   • 1874, Barbey d'Aurevilly, ‘Le Rideau cramoisi’, Les Diaboliques:

     La rue, – où passaient chaque nuit deux diligences en sens inverses […] qui toutes deux s'arrêtaient à l’Hôtel de la Poste pour relayer, – la rue était silencieuse comme le fond d'un puits.

     The street – where every night two carriages passed in opposite directions, both of which stopped at the Hôtel de la Poste to change horses – the street was as silent as the bottom of a well.

2. (transitive) to relieve, take over from
3. (transitive) to replace
4. (transitive) to transmit, relay (information)
5. (reflexive) to take turns, to alternate

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb as far as pronunciation is concerned, but as with other verbs in -ayer (such as payer and essayer, the <y> of its stem may optionally be written as <i> when it precedes a silent <e> (compare verbs in -eyer, which never have this spelling change, and verbs in -oyer and -uyer, which always have it; verbs in -ayer belong to either group, according to the writer's preference).

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French liaison (“binding”), from Latin lig?ti? (stem ligation-) (English ligation), derived from lig? (“I bind”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley?- (“to bind”). Doublet of ligation.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?z?n
• (UK) IPA^(key): /li?e?.z??/, /li?e?.z?n/, /li?e?.z(?)n/, (nonstandard) /la??e?.z?n/, /la??e?.z?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /li.?e?.z?n/, /li.?e?.s?n/, (nonstandard) /?la?.?.s?n/

Noun

liaison (countable and uncountable, plural liaisons)

1. Communication between two parties or groups.
2. Co-operation, working together.
3. A relayer of information between two forces in an army or during war.
4. A tryst, romantic meeting.
5. (figuratively) An illicit sexual relationship or affair.
6. (linguistics) The phonological fusion of two consecutive words and the manner in which this occurs, for example intrusion, consonant-vowel linking, etc. In the context of some languages, such as French, liaison can refer specifically to a normally silent final consonant, being pronounced when the next word begins with a vowel, and can often also include the intrusion of a "t" in certain fixed chunks of language such as the question form "pense-t-il".

   Hypernym: sandhi

Related terms

• liaise
• ligation

Translations

Verb

liaison (third-person singular simple present liaisons, present participle liaisoning, simple past and past participle liaisoned)

1. (proscribed) To liaise.

Anagrams

• isolani

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Late Latin lig?ti?, lig?ti?nem, derived from Latin lig? (“bind”), or formed from lier +? -aison based on the Latin word. Compare also Old Occitan liazó, liazon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lj?.z??/

Noun

liaison f (plural liaisons)

1. link, bond
2. friendship
3. liaison (romantic encounter)
4. liaison (communication)
5. (linguistics) liaison (phonological phenomenon)
6. (chemistry) bond

Related terms

• lier

Further reading

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