gouverneur
See also: Gouverneur
Dutch
Alternative forms
- (before 1996) goeverneur
Etymology
From Middle Dutch gouverneur, borrowed from Middle French gouverneur.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɣu.vərˈnøːr/, /ˌɣu.vɛrˈnøːr/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: gou‧ver‧neur
- Rhymes: -øːr
Derived terms
- gouverneurspaleis
Related terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: goewerneur
- Negerhollands: guwerneer
- → Lokono: gouverneur
- → Indonesian: gubernur
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French gouverneur, from Old French gouvreneur, from Latin gubernātōrem, from Ancient Greek κυβερνήτης (kubernḗtēs, “steersman, pilot, guide”), from κυβερνάω (kubernáō, “to steer, to drive, to guide, to act as a pilot”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡu.vɛʁ.nœʁ/
Derived terms
Related terms
- gouvernement (“government”)
Descendants
- Antillean Creole: gouvènè
- Louisiana Creole: gouvènœr, gouvnœr, gouvèrnè, gouvèrnen, gouvèrnèr
- Seychellois Creole: gouverner
- → Czech: guvernér
- → Danish: guvernør
- → Estonian: kuberner
- → Faroese: guvernørur
- → German: Gouverneur
- → Luxembourgish: Gouverneur
- → Macedonian: гувернер (guverner)
- → Norwegian:
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Slovak: guvernér
- → Slovene: guverner
- → Swedish: guvernör
- → Finnish: kuvernööri
- → Turkish: guvernör
Further reading
- “gouverneur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French gouvreneur.
Related terms
Descendants
- French: gouverneur (see there for further descendants)
- → Middle Dutch: gouverneur
- Dutch: gouverneur
- Afrikaans: goewerneur
- Negerhollands: guwerneer
- → Lokono: gouverneur
- → Indonesian: gubernur
- Limburgish: goevernäör
- Dutch: gouverneur
- → German: Gouverneur
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