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relayer
English
Etymology 1
relay +? -er
Noun
relayer (plural relayers)
- One who, or that which, relays.
- 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)
- To layer again.
French
Etymology
re- +? laier (“old dialect term: to leave”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.l?.je/, /??.le.je/
Verb
relayer
- (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.
- 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.
- 1874, Barbey d'Aurevilly, ‘Le Rideau cramoisi’, Les Diaboliques:
- (transitive) to relieve, take over from
- (transitive) to replace
- (transitive) to transmit, relay (information)
- (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).
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replayer
English
Etymology
replay +? -er
Noun
replayer (plural replayers)
- One who, or that which, replays; a person or device carrying out playback.
- 1985, New Zealand, Statutory regulations (volume 2, page 630)
- A reference to a type of equipment as "television reception equipment" shall be deemed to be a reference to television receivers, and video recorders and replayers […]
- 1985, New Zealand, Statutory regulations (volume 2, page 630)
Anagrams
- parleyer
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- what is universal replayer
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