avaler French · revision 16866

18 Oct 2026, 13:49 by bogdan “fr75p: fix comma splices from autofix (menacer, avaler, pâle, crise)” current version

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  The sense “to descend” (a river, a staircase) is now archaic or technical, like its extensions “to bring down, fell” (12th to 18th centuries), longer kept in the participle (''des joues avalées'' “sagging cheeks”), and “to sink (a pit, a mine)” (1783).^(DHLF 1992) The only sense left in common use is “to swallow” (late 12th century: ''nes un tout seul morcel n'en a elle avalé'' in ''Berte''), which frequency has cut off from its origin.^(DHLF 1992)^(Littré 1873)
  
− Figuratively, ''avaler quelque chose'' meant “to accept, put up with” from the 15th century, whence ''dur à avaler'' and ''avaler la pilule'', ''faire avaler quelque chose à quelqu'un'' is “to make someone put up with it” in Molière (1666) and “to make someone believe it” in 1835.^(DHLF 1992) The old sense survives in [[ravaler]] and [[avalanche]], which ''avalaison'' “mountain torrent” probably influenced.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(DHLF 1992)
+ Figuratively, ''avaler quelque chose'' meant “to accept, put up with” from the 15th century, whence ''dur à avaler'' and ''avaler la pilule'';^(DHLF 1992) ''faire avaler quelque chose à quelqu'un'' is “to make someone put up with it” in Molière (1666) and “to make someone believe it” in 1835.^(DHLF 1992) The old sense survives in [[ravaler]] and [[avalanche]], which ''avalaison'' “mountain torrent” probably influenced.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(DHLF 1992)
  
  ==Timeline==