traire

Inherited from Old French traire, treire (“to pull”), from Early Medieval Latin tragō, from Latin trahere (“to pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *tragʰ- (“to draw, drag”).

• IPA^(key): /tʁɛʁ/
• Rhymes: -ɛʁ

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traire

1. (transitive) to milk (a cow, etc)

This verb traditionally has no past historic or imperfect subjunctive. They would be formed on a -tray- root: *je trayis, *que nous trayissions etc. Forms using the 'a' endings of verbs in -er are now used when there is an unavoidable need to use these forms. The root -trais- was used instead of -tray- in the 18th century, and remains in Swiss and Savoy dialects.

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

• errait, retira, terrai, tirera, triera

From Old French traire.

traire

1. to fire (an arrow)
   • c. 1369, Jean Froissart, Chroniques:

     arbalestriers commencierent a traire sur le chastel

     [the] crossbowmen started to fire at the castle

• French: traire

From Old French traire, from Early Medieval Latin tragō Latin trahō (“I pull”).

traire

1. to pull
2. to milk

• attraire
• estraire
• soutraire

From Old Occitan traire, from Early Medieval Latin tragō, from Latin trahere (“to drag, extract, trail”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾaj.ɾe/

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traire

1. to pull, drag

• treire, trere

From Early Medieval Latin tragō, from Classical Latin trahō (“I pull”).

traire

1. to pull
2. (chiefly of a weapon) to draw; to unsheathe
3. to pull out (extract by pulling); to remove (by pulling)
   • c. 1150, Thomas d'Angleterre, Le Roman de Tristan, Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, page 164, line 1980:

     Un anel d'or trait de sun dei

     she removed a gold ring from her finger

   • c. 1170, Wace, Le Roman de Rou:

     A plusurs fist traire les denz

     For many, he pulled out their teeth

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb ends in a palatal stem, so there is an extra i before the e of some endings. 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.

• atraire
• estraire
• retraire

• Middle French: traire
  • French: traire
• Norman: traithe, traire

From Early Medieval Latin tragō, from Classical Latin trahō (“I pull”).

traire

1. to pull

• atraire
• estraire
• retraire

• Occitan: traire

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “trahere”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 13: To–Tyrus, page 177