avouch
Meaningto call
Common meaning: assert or declare with confidence
- avouchto callSkeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), p. 45 · scan
Journey through time
- Aryan root · reconstructed√WAK‘cry out’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 333, p. 742 · scan
- Old Frenchavochier‘to call’source
- Middle Englishmeaning shiftsto call → affirmavouchen‘affirm’source
- Englishmeaning shiftsaffirm → assert or declare with confidenceavouch‘assert or declare with confidence’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Old French avochier ‘to call’.
Roots
- avochier Old French “to call”
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