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Where does “exhaurer” come from?

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

exhaurer (French): to drain water from a mine

Definitions

  1. to drain water from a mine

Ancestry of “exhaurer”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1French-erForms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs
2Middle French-erForms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs;...
3Old French-iersuffix used to form infinitives of first...

Words derived from “exhaurer”

  • exhaurer
  • exhaure
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