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chez

/ʃe/

preposition/ʃe/

to, at, in or into the home, office, etc. of; by extension, to, at or in the country of; in; among (a group of things or people of the same type); in the work of (an author or artist)

chez moiat my house

Inherited from Middle French chez, from Old French chies, from Latin casa (“house”). Doublet of case. The lack of final -e may be due to contraction in unstressed position; however, it has also been explained as the continuation of a Proto-Romance dative-genitive form case (from Latin casae).