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chaloir

/ʃa.lwaʁ/

verb/ʃa.lwaʁ/

to matter (to), to be of import (for)

Related: chaland, nonchaloir, nonchalant

Inherited from Middle French chaloir, from Old French chaloir, from earlier chaleir, from Latin calēre (“to heat”), from Proto-Italic *kalēō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelh₁-. Compare Occitan caler, Catalan caldre (“to be necessary”), Italian calere.