cauchemar
French
noun
Definitions
- nightmare
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French cauchemare inherited from Old French cauquemare affix from French cauque + French mar derived from Latin calcare (I trample, tread on, press) derived from Middle Dutch mare (spirit, phantom, nightmare) derived from Proto-Germanic *marǭ (nightmare, incubus) derived from Proto-Indo-European *mor- (feminine evil spirit, rub, wear away, pound, malicious female spirit), *mer- (die, rub, wear away, sea, gleam, sparkle, pound, glimmer, weave, pack, bind, plait, girl, young boy).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*mer-
Gloss
die, rub, wear away, sea, gleam, sparkle, pound, glimmer, weave, pack, bind, plait, girl, young boy
Concept
Semantic Field
Time
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
海
Emoji
🎲
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Kraken Mare English
- ambrosia English
- antemortem English
- daymare English
- immortally English
- mare English
- morbidity English
- morbidly English
- morbidness English
- mortality English
- mortgage English
- mortify English
- mortmain English
- mortuary English
- murderous English
- murrain English
- nightmare English
- perimortem English
- postmortem English
- premortem English
- seamare English
- calcare Latin
- immortālis Latin
- immortālitās Latin
- merus Latin
- morbidus Latin
- morbus Latin
- moribundus Latin
- morior Latin
- morior, morī Latin
- mortālis Latin
- morī Latin
- post Latin
- rememorari Latin
- cocchiume Italian
- cauchemardement French
- cauchemardesque French
- cauque French
- mar French
- mort French
- кошма́р Russian
- кошмар Russian
- кошмарный Russian
- μάρμαρος Ancient Greek
- μαρμαίρω Ancient Greek
- μαρτιχόρας Ancient Greek
- *(s)mer- Proto-Indo-European
- *mer- Proto-Indo-European
- *mer-, *mr̥- Proto-Indo-European
- *mor- Proto-Indo-European
- *mrtro- Proto-Indo-European
- *mr̥tro- Proto-Indo-European
- *mr̥twós Proto-Indo-European
- *mr̥tós Proto-Indo-European
- *mr̥wós Proto-Indo-European
- *maimrōną Proto-Germanic
- *mairōną Proto-Germanic
- *mari Proto-Germanic
- *marǭ Proto-Germanic
- *murþą Proto-Germanic
- *mīmrōną Proto-Germanic
- koszmar Polish
- *nihtmare Old English
- mare Old English
- मरते Sanskrit
- मारयति Sanskrit
- मृ Sanskrit
- मृत Sanskrit
- mare Middle English
- mortally Middle English
- mara Old Norse
- morðari Old Norse
- *merti Proto-Slavic
- *morъ Proto-Slavic
- *sъmьrtь Proto-Slavic
- *umerti Proto-Slavic
- *umerti, *merti Proto-Slavic
- *umirati Proto-Slavic
- mor Czech
- cauquemare Old French
- mare Old French
- koŝmaro Esperanto
- košmar Serbo-Croatian
- кошмар Serbo-Croatian
- coșmar Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- مرده Persian
- mare Middle Dutch
- mara Old High German
- մարի Old Armenian
- koshmaro Ido
- кошмар Bulgarian
- cauchemare Middle French
- קאָשמאַר Yiddish
- *māri Old Dutch
- კოშმარი Georgian
- кошмар Macedonian
- мрша Macedonian
- *mr̥tyúš Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *márti Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *mártyas Proto-Indo-Iranian
- umrieť Slovak
- *morjōr Proto-Italic
- YMYTWNtn' Middle Persian
- kojmar Volapük
- 𑀫𑀸𑀭𑁂𑀇 Maharastri Prakrit
- *marā Proto-Albanian
- *merusa Proto-Albanian
- mirin Kurdish