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Where does “exhaure” come from?

exhaure (French) comes from French exhaurer, from French -er, from Middle French -er, from Old French -ier — suffix used to form infinitives of first...

exhaure (French): drainage; first-person singular present...

Definitions

  1. drainage; first-person singular present...

Ancestry of “exhaure”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchexhaurerto drain water from a mine
2French-erForms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs
3Middle French-erForms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs;...
4Old French-iersuffix used to form infinitives of first...

Words derived from “exhaure”

  • exhaurer
  • exhaure
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