amadouer

Inherited from Middle French amadouer (“to coax, lure”), from a- + *madouer (“to lure, give food to”), from Old Norse mata (“to lure, feed”), from Proto-Germanic *matōną, *matjaną (“to feed, eat”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“wet”). Cognate with Icelandic mata (“to bait, allure”), Danish made (“to feed”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (matjan, “to eat, have a meal”), Old English mete (“food”). More at meat.

• IPA^(key): /a.ma.dwe/

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amadouer

1. to coax; to sweet-talk (persuade gradually)
2. to cajole
3. to humour (person)

• amadou

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

from Old Norse mata (“to lure, feed”), from Proto-Germanic *matōną, *matjaną (“to feed, eat”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“wet”). Cognate with Icelandic mata (“to bait, allure”), Danish made (“to feed”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (matjan, “to eat, have a meal”), Old English mete (“food”). More at meat.

amadouer

1. to coax; to sweet-talk (persuade gradually) (Can we add an example for this sense?)

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• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.