yvre

Middle French

Alternative forms

• ivre

Etymology

From Old French yvre, from Latin ēbrius, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁egʷʰ- (“drink”).

Adjective

yvre m or f (plural yvres)

1. drunk (intoxicated due to alcohol)

Descendants

• French: ivre

Old French

Alternative forms

• ivre

Etymology

From Latin ēbrius, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁egʷʰ- (“drink”).

Adjective

yvre m (oblique and nominative feminine singular yvre)

1. drunk (intoxicated due to alcohol)
2. (figuratively) intoxicated (with love or emotion)

Descendants

• French: ivre

Old Occitan

FWOTD – 26 March 2019

Alternative forms

• ivre

Etymology

From Latin ēbrius.

Adjective

yvre

1. drunk
   • c. 1110, Guilhèm de Peitieus, Canso:

     E no m’en tengatz per yvre / S’ieu ma bona dompna am [...].

     And she doesn't take me for drunk if I love my good lady.