enfuir French · revision 16923

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 1050, Vie de saint Alexis|origins=la fugio}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ɑ̃.fɥiʁ/^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Belgium): /ɑ̃.fwiʁ/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''enfuir'''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a compound of the adverbial pronoun [[en]] “from there” and [[fuir]] “to flee”: the old construction “s’en fuir” “to flee from there” came to be written as one word.^(GLLF 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Petit Robert 2007)^(TLFi) The simple verb continues [[la|fugiō|t=to flee]].^(TLFi)^(FEW|3, 837b)

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+ The same compound gave [[oc|enfugir]].^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The ''Vie de saint Alexis'' (about 1050) has ''s'en fuit de la ciptét'' “he flees from the city”.^(TLFi) In the ''Chanson de Roland'' the parts are still separable: ''fuït s'en est Marsiles'' “Marsile has fled”.^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As with [[fuir]], its senses go from “to run away, escape” to things that pass and vanish, such as time and life.^(DHLF 1992) Robert Estienne records it in 1549 for a liquid leaking from a vessel, a use now taken by ''fuir'';^(GLLF 1989) Furetière (1690) has the figurative “to pass, disappear”, said of time.^(GLLF 1989) In Anglo-Norman ''enfuir'' meant “to flee” and “to disappear, vanish”; a separate Anglo-Norman ''enfuir'' meant “to bury”.^(AND)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1050 – ''S'en fuir'', in the ''Vie de saint Alexis''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1080 – ''S'enfuit'', in the ''Chanson de Roland''.^(Grand Robert 2005)^(GLLF 1989)

+ * 1549 – Of a liquid leaking out, in Robert Estienne.^(GLLF 1989)

+ * 1690 – Of time, “to slip away”, in Furetière.^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # ''(pronominal)'' ''S'enfuir'': to [[m|en|flee]], run away, [[m|en|escape]]: ''le prisonnier s'est enfui par le toit''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(pronominal, figurative)'' Of time, a feeling or a dream, to slip away, vanish.^(GLLF 1989)^(DHLF 1992)

+ # ''(pronominal, dated)'' Of a liquid, to leak out (now ''fuir'').^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fuir]]

+ * [[fuite]]

+ * [[fugitif]]

+ * [[la|fugiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}