changer

French

verb
Definitions
  • (transitive) to exchange (something)
  • (transitive) to change (money, a job, one's circumstances etc.)
  • (transitive) to change, alter (something en into)
  • (transitive) to change (a diaper)
  • (intransitive) to change
  • (pronominal) to change (one's clothes), get changed

Etymology

Inherited from Old French changier inherited from Latin cambiāre derived from Gaulish cambion (change) derived from Proto-Celtic *kambos (twisted, crooked, curved) derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱambos.

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*(s)ḱambos

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