chymeneye

• chemyney, chimenai, chimeney, chiminee, chymenay, chymenei, chymeney, chymne, chymney, chymneye, chymny, chymynay
• chymnay, chymneth, kymenay (Northern); chemmyne, chimna, chimnay, chymna (Early Scots)

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman chimeneie, chimenee (Francien cheminee), from Late Latin camīnāta.

Forms starting with k- are from Old Northern French queminee; forms ending in -th are from early Old French *chemenethe.

• IPA^(key): /ˌt͡ʃim(i)ˈnæi̯(ə)/, /ˈt͡ʃim(i)næi̯(ə)/, /-eː/

chymeneye (plural chymeneyes)

1. A hearth; where a fire is lit.
2. A chimney; a ventilation chamber for smoke.
   • a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Osee 13:3”, in Wycliffe's Bible:

     Þerfor þei ſchulen be as a morewtid cloude and as þe deew of morewtid, þat paſſiþ forþ as duſt rauyſchide bi whirlewynd fro þe corn floor and as ſmoke of a chymenei

     And so they will be like the morning cloud, and the dew of the morning which dissipates, as dust lifted by whirlwind from the corn floor, and like the smoke of a chimney.

3. A device for heating; an overn or furnace.
4. (rare, figurative) Something which heats or ventilates.

• English: chimney (dialectal chimley)
• Middle Scots: chimnay
  • Scots: chimley, chimlie
• Yola: gimlie
• → Welsh: simnai

• “chimenẹ̄, -ei, -ai, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 15 July 2018.