chaloir

Inherited from Middle French chaloir, from Old French chaloir, from earlier chaleir, from Latin calēre (“to heat”), from Proto-Italic *kalēō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelh₁-. Compare Occitan caler, Catalan caldre (“to be necessary”), Italian calere.

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.lwaʁ/

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chaloir (defective)

1. (impersonal, literary, with indirect object) to matter (to), to be of import (for)

• This verb is conjugated exactly like valoir, except that, being impersonal, it has only the third-person singular. Tenses other than the present indicative (il chaut) are rare.

• chaland
• nonchaloir
• nonchalant

• chaleur
• chaud
• échauffer

• “chaloir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old French chaloir, from earlier chaleir, from Latin calēre (“to heat”).

chaloir

1. to heat
2. (reflexive, se chaloir) to bother, to worry

• French: chaloir

• caleir, chaleir

From earlier chaleir, from Latin calēre (“to heat”). Compare Franco-Provençal chalêr, Old Occitan caler.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaˈloi̯ɾ/

chaloir

1. to heat
2. (impersonal, reflexive, se chaloir) to bother, to concern
   • c. 1200, author unknown, Aucassin et Nicolette:

     Moi ne caut u nous aillons

     I don't care where we go

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• nonchaloir

• chaut/chalt
• eschaufer/eschalfer

• Middle French: chaloir
  • French: chaloir

• “Appendix E: Irregular Verbs” in E. Einhorn (1974), Old French: A Concise Handbook, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 150–151