Norman

Alternative forms

• éghise (alternative Guernsey form)
• êglyise, êglyîthe (Jersey)
• eglyiz (Sark)

Noun

égllise f ‎(plural égllises)

1. (France, Guernsey) church
   • 1883, George Métivier, ‘L'Nèr Cotillon d'Mussieu l'Curaï’, Patois Poems of the Channel Islands:

     D'l'égllise, ùn sèr, nou-z en r'venànt, / Chacùn souriait, parlafràndine [...].‎

     One evening we were coming home from church, everyone smiling and happy.

   • 2006, Marie de Garis, ‘Enne p'tite ôlure’, P'tites Lures Guernésiaises, Cromwell Press 2006, p. 24:

     Ch'tait tànt mux qu'a counnissait son ch'min, pasqué oprès qu'all'avait passaïr l’éghise et rentrï dans les p'tites rues pour ciz ielle, a'n veyait goute.‎

     It was just as well that she knew her way, because after she had passed the church and entered the narrow lanes to her house, she couldn't see a thing.