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merci
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merci
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Etymology edit
Frae Middle French merci, mercy, frae Old French merci, frae Laitin mercēdem, accusative seengular o mercēs (“wages, fee, price”).
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /wt/skɔ/.mɛʁ.si/ invalid IPA characters (//)
- (France, Paris) IPA(key): [mɛʁ.si]
Audio (Fraunce, Paris) (file) - (Louisiana) IPA(key): [mæ(ɾ).si]
- Homophone: mercis
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merci m (plural Wt/sco/mercis)
- (interjection) thank ye
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merci f (uncountable)
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Further reading edit
- “Wt/sco/merci” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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merci
- (Swisserland) thank ye
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- Wt/sco/merci in Duden online
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- Hyphenation: mèr‧ci
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merci f
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mercī
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- mercie (Guernsey)
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Frae Old French merci (“mercy; clemency”), frae Laitin mercēs, mercēdem (“wages, fee, price”).
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merci
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- mercie bian (“thank ye verra much”)
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merci f (nominative singular Wt/sco/merci)
- mercy; clemency
- circa 1176, Chrétien de Troyes, Cligès:
- Se vos metez an sa merci
Nus (fors le conte qui est ci)
de vos n'i a mort desservie
ja ne perdroiz manbre ne vie- If ye thraw yersels on his mercy
None (apairt frae the coont wha is here)
o ye deserve daith;
ye will lose neither life nor limm
- If ye thraw yersels on his mercy
- Se vos metez an sa merci
- 13th century, Herman de Valenciennes, Assomption Nostre Dame, page 7, column 2, lines 16-17:
- ceo sacez m'amie tuit cil que te requerunt
a tun commandement merci auvrunt- this ye ken, my friend, that aw thae wha are leukin for ye
upon yer command will hae mercy
- this ye ken, my friend, that aw thae wha are leukin for ye
- ceo sacez m'amie tuit cil que te requerunt
- circa 1176, Chrétien de Troyes, Cligès: