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La terre est vendue aux enchères .

The land is sold at auction.

Le couple
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s'installe sur
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cette terre la même année .

The couple settled on this land the same year.

Mais les nobles qui partent , vendent à tout prix la terre au paysan .

But the nobles who leave, sell the land to the peasant at all costs.

Elles enlevèrent la mesure entre la terre et le ciel .

They removed the measure between the earth and the sky.

On n’y accède que par des chemins de terre qu’un agriculteur
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entretient .

It is only accessed by dirt roads that a farmer maintains.

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɛʁ/

Inherited from Middle French

Inherited from Old French

Inherited from Latin

Cognate with Jèrriais

Cognate with Picard

Cognate with Corsican

In summary

Inherited from Middle French terre, from Old French terre, from Latin terra (“earth”), from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”). See cognates in regional languages in France: Norman terre; Gallo tèrr or terre; Picard tère; Bourguignon târre; Franco-Provençal and Occitan tèrra; Corsican terra.