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henchir

/enˈt͡ʃiɾ/

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verb/enˈt͡ʃiɾ/

to swell, to fill something; to fill (a job position)

Inherited from Old Spanish fenchir, enchir, from Vulgar Latin *implīre, from Latin implēre. More information According to Coromines & Pascual, the initial f- in Old Spanish was likely due to phonetic and semantic similarities with finchar > modern hinchar. In dwindling use by the 16th century, henchir was increasingly limited to idioms, and they mention that Juan de Valdés complained about needing to use the verb in such expressions due to an easy confusion with hinchar, giving as an example De