gâcher
French
verb
Definitions
- to ruin, spoil, mar, wreck, waste
- to mess up, botch, bungle
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French gascher (waste, row) inherited from Old French gaschier derived from Frankish *waskan derived from Proto-Germanic *waskaną (wash) derived from Proto-Indo-European *wod- (wet, water).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*wod-
Gloss
wet, water
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
水
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- guazzare Italian
- sguazzare Italian
- gâche French
- *wed- Proto-Indo-European
- *wod- Proto-Indo-European
- *waskaną Proto-Germanic
- wascan Old English
- washen Middle English
- vaska Old Norse
- gaschier Old French
- wascan Old High German
- gascher Middle French
- *waskan gmw-pro
- wascan Old Dutch
- waskan Old Saxon
- *waskan Frankish
- waska Old Frisian