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coudre.

to sew

6 characters2 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

verb/kudʁ/
  1. to sew

    dé à coudre
    machine à coudre
  2. to mend

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old French coudre, cosdre, from Vulgar Latin *cōsere, from Latin cōnsuere. The original Old French infinitive was *co(u)sre, where -d- was inserted as a gliding sound. The preconsonantal -s- then became silent, in this case dropping from the spelling relatively early on. The d-spellings in the present tense are merely analogical (for expected je cous, il coût).

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