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empiéger

empiéger

See also: empieger

French

Verb

empiéger

  1. (rare) to trap

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like protéger. It has both the spelling irregularities of other verbs in -ger (such as manger, where a silent ‘e’ is inserted before ‘a’ and ‘o’ endings (to indicate the /ʒ/ sound), and the spelling and pronunciation irregularities of other verbs in -é-er (such as céder), where the last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written ‘é’) and /ɛ/ (written ‘è’).

References

  1. (fr)(de) impedicāre in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (Walther von Wartburg, 2002)