chief
Middle French
noun
Definitions
- head
Etymology
Inherited from Old French chief (head, leader).
Origin
Old French
chief
Gloss
head, leader
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
長
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- chef English
- chief English
- *capum Latin
- Reconstruction:Latin/capum Latin
- caput Latin
- Chef German
- chef Italian
- chef Dutch, Flemish
- chef French
- cheffer French
- derechef French
- sous-chef French
- шеф Russian
- chef Spanish, Castilian
- jefe Spanish, Castilian
- chef Portuguese
- chefe Portuguese
- chef Swedish
- シェフ Japanese
- szef Polish
- chef Middle English
- chef Danish
- šéf Czech
- chief Old French
- covrechief Old French
- ĉefo Esperanto
- xef Catalan, Valencian
- xefe Galician
- şef Turkish
- chef Norman
- sếp Vietnamese
- Chef Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- שף Hebrew (modern)
- шеф Macedonian
- xefe Asturian
- xefe Old Spanish
- cifal Volapük
- chèf Haitian, Haitian Creole
- şef Crimean Tatar
- şeflik Crimean Tatar