cheance

Middle English

Noun

cheance

Alternative form of chaunce

Old French

Alternative forms

chaance, chance, chaiance, cheanse, cheanz
cheaunce, chaaunce, chaunce, chauns
caanche, canche, keanche
caance, cance

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *cadentia (“falling”), from Latin cadēns, from cadō (“fall”).

Pronunciation

(classical) IPA^(key): /tʃəˈantsə/, /tʃa-/, (northern) /kəˈantʃə/, /ka-/, /-tsə/
(late) IPA^(key): /ˈʃansə/, (northern) /ˈkanʃə/, /ˈkau̯-/, /-sə/, (Anglo-Norman hybrid?) /ˈtʃau̯nsə/

Noun

cheance oblique singular, f (oblique plural cheances, nominative singular cheance, nominative plural cheances)

fall, drop, plunge
chance; fate
(rare) a throw of a die

Related terms

cheoir

Descendants

French: chance (see there for further descendants)
Norman: caunche
Picard: canche
Walloon: tchance
→ Middle Dutch: canse
- Dutch: kans
→ Middle English: chaunce, chance, chanse, chauns, chaunse, chaunche, cheance, cheaunce, cheiance, schaunce; chanse, chaunsse, chawnce
- English: chance (archaic chaunce)
  - → Japanese: チャンス
- Scots: chance

References

cheance on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (cheance, supplement)

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