craindre.
to fear
Meaning & usage
to fear
to suck (to be unwanted or bad)
J'ai perdu mon portefeuille. — Merde, ça craint.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle French, from Old French criembre, criendre (later creindre), from Classical Latin tremere, from Proto-Indo-European *trem- (“to tremble”). Altered into a regional Gallo-Romance Vulgar Latin form *cremere, with the initial c- under the influence of the Celtic root *krit- (Breton kridien, Scottish Gaelic crith), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *krey-. Compare the similar Occitan crénher.
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