desmanche

Norman

Alternative forms
  • dîmmaunche, dinmaunche (continental Norman)
  • daimanche, dêmanche, dinmanche (Guernsey)
  • Dînmanche (Jersey)

Etymology

From Old French diemenche, from Latin dies Dominica (“day of the Lord”).

Noun

desmanche m (plural desmanches)

  1. (Guernsey) Sunday
    • 2006, Marie de Garis, ‘Enne p'tite sornaette’, P'tites Lures Guernésiaises, Cromwell Press 2006, p. 26:
      Tous les desmanches, en sortànt d'l'éghise les v'là, bras-d'sus, bras-sous, à faire aen p'tit tour. (Every Sunday, on coming out of the church, there they were, arm in arm, off on a little walk.)

Derived terms

Portuguese

Verb

desmanche

  1. inflection of desmanchar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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