couchier

Norman

Alternative forms

• couochi

Etymology

From Old French couchier, from Latin collocāre (“set in place”).

Verb

couchier

1. (Guernsey) to go to bed
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[1], page 517:

     Il est niais coume Dadais qui se couachait dans l'iaue d'paeur d'être mouailli.

     He is as foolish as Dadais who lay down in the water to avoid getting wet in a shower.

Old French

Alternative forms

• colchier, coucher, culcher, culchier, cucher

Etymology

From Latin collocāre.

Verb

couchier

1. lay down
2. (reflexive, se couchier) go to bed
3. (by extension) have sex

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -ier, with a palatal stem. These verbs are conjugated mostly like verbs in -er, but there is an extra i before the e of some endings. In the present tense an extra supporting e is needed in the first-person singular indicative and throughout the singular subjunctive, and the third-person singular subjunctive ending -t is lost. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of couchier (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		couchier			avoir couchié
gerund		en couchant			gerund of avoir + past participle
present participle		couchant
past participle		couchié
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	il	nos	vos	il
simple tenses	present	couche	couches	couche	couchons	couchiez	couchent
	imperfect	couchoie, coucheie, couchoe, couchieve	couchoies, coucheies, couchoes, couchieves	couchoit, coucheit, couchot, couchieve	couchiiens, couchiens	couchiiez, couchiez	couchoient, coucheient, couchoent, couchievent
	preterite	couchai	couchas	coucha	couchames	couchastes	couchierent
	future	coucherai	coucheras	couchera	coucherons	coucheroiz, couchereiz, coucherez	coucheront
	conditional	coucheroie, couchereie	coucheroies, couchereies	coucheroit, couchereit	coucheriiens, coucheriens	coucheriiez, coucheriez	coucheroient, couchereient
compound tenses	present perfect	present tense of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect tense of avoir + past participle
	past anterior	preterite tense of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future tense of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional tense of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que jo	que tu	qu’il	que nos	que vos	qu’il
simple tenses	present	couche	couches	couche	couchons	couchiez	couchent
	imperfect	couchasse	couchasses	couchast	couchissons, couchissiens	couchissoiz, couchissez, couchissiez	couchassent
compound tenses	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
		—	couche	—	couchons	couchiez	—

Descendants

• Middle French: couchier, coucher
  • French: coucher
• Norman: couochi (Jersey)
• → Middle English: couchen, chouchen, cowchyn, kouchen, couche, cowche
  • English: couch
  • Scots: cooch, cootch

Noun

couchier oblique singular, m (oblique plural couchiers, nominative singular couchiers, nominative plural couchier)

1. bedtime (point at which one goes to bed)