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noer
noer
Old French
Etymology 1
From Vulgar Latin *notāre, alteration of Latin natāre, present active infinitive of natō. Compare Italian nuotare, Romansch nudar, nodar, Romanian înota (older form nota). Was eventually displaced by nager in modern French, possibly due to its phonetic closeness with the unrelated verb below, in the second etymology.
Verb
noer
- to swim (travel through water)
Synonyms
Etymology 2
From Latin nōdāre, present active infinitive of nodō.
Verb
noer
- to knot (making something into a know)
Descendants
- French: nouer
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of noer (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | noer | avoir noé | |||||
| gerund | en noant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | noant | ||||||
| past participle | noé | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses |
present | no | noes | noe | noons | noez | noent |
| imperfect | nooie, noeie, nooe, noeve | nooies, noeies, nooes, noeves | nooit, noeit, noot, noeve | noïiens, noïens | noïiez, noïez | nooient, noeient, nooent, noevent | |
| preterite | noai | noas | noa | noames | noastes | noerent | |
| future | noerai | noeras | noera | noerons | noeroiz, noereiz, noerez | noeront | |
| conditional | noeroie, noereie | noeroies, noereies | noeroit, noereit | noeriiens, noeriens | noeriiez, noeriez | noeroient, noereient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | Use the preterite tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
| simple tenses |
present | no | nos | not | noons | noez | noent |
| imperfect | noasse | noasses | noast | noïssons, noïssiens | noïssoiz, noïssez, noïssiez | noassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
| — | noe | — | noons | noez | — | ||
References
- (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (noer, "to swim")
- (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (noer, supplement, "to knot")