French words ending with ......

[cj]

Hi, can any of you give me a list of french words ending with eu (as is bleu)

Thankyou in advance to anyone who answers

[Frank]

Oh, there's a lot of them.

Here are some:

beu
allume-feu
bateau-feu
boutefeu
cessez-le-feu
coin-de-feu
contrefeu
coupe-feu
couvre-feu
cure-feu
eau-de-feu
enfeu
feu
pare-feu
pot-au-feu
tire-feu
heu
adieu
milieu
dieu
caïeu
camaïeu
chef-lieu
courlieu
emposieu
épieu
essieu
fieu
pardieu
pieu
tonlieu
torrieu
ventredieu
vertudieu
jeu
antijeu
contrejeu
enjeu
franc-jeu
hors-jeu
plein-jeu
surjeu
téléjeu
alleu
bleu
corbleu
franc-alleu
leu
morbleu
palsambleu
parbleu
sacrebleu
shleu
ventrebleu
vertubleu
émeu
pneu
neu-neu
scrogneugneu
voeu
peu
areu
hale-breu
hébreu
néohébreu
vireu
bongueu
dégueu
neveu
cheveu
aveu
sèche-cheveu (yes, without the ending X)
bonyeu
cayeu
moyeu
tire-moyeu

[Marc Vonhalmen]

Wow, where did you find such a list, Frank ?!?! haha don't tell me you wrote it yourself, I wouldn't believe you ;-)
(It probably contains more than a dozen of words that I don't even know)

Oh, here is another one: "pelleu", a purely Swiss word for "pebble". That's the only one I could think of that was not already on the list :-)

[cj]

Great, any more ?

[Marc Vonhalmen]

Just noticed that "lieu" wasn't on the list.

[Frank]

As stated before, this is just a partial list with some random words I cherrypicked. I had to type it manually while looking at a dictionary (an electronic one, but without any way to copy/paste) and it was long and boring enough.

[cj]

Hi Frank, I didn't mean you specifically, you have done more than enough - Thankyou.

My reqyest for any more was to others .......... thanks again.

However, I have had alot of trouble finding online translators that recognise most of those words, can anyone advise me of the online resources they use please.

:o)

[Neil Coffey]

That's not surprising-- some of these words are hugely rare (and there are a few of them that at this moment in time I have absolutely no conception of their meanings-- perhaps Frank when you get chance you might like to tell us what your dictionary says some of the more exotic ones mean?).

[Frank]

Sure, here are some.

boutefeu: Personne qui sème la discorde, provoque des querelles.
cure-feu: Tige métallique que l’on utilise pour attiser le feu, pour remuer les braises.
enfeu: Niche funéraire à fond plat pratiquée dans les murs des églises, au cours du Moyen Âge.
caïeu: Bourgeon de remplacement qui se développe sur le bulbe principal de certaines plantes.
courlieu: Oiseau échassier migrateur à long bec courbé vers le bas, qui vit près de l’eau.
emposieu: Excavation circulaire en forme d’entonnoir dans le sous-sol calcaire par où s’écoulent les eaux des hauts plateaux du Jura; aven.
tonlieu: Impôt perçu sur les marchandises transportées par terre ou par eau.
vertubleu: Juron plutôt inoffensif remplaçant vertu de Dieu.
vireu: éventail à fromage
bonyeu: individu malfaisant
cayeu: Bourgeon de remplacement qui se développe sur le bulbe principal de certaines plantes.

[mopsley meadow]

Hi Frank,

It was really nice of you to suppy all this info.

Can you tell me how you zero-ed in on how to find words by their endings?
Just found a site that promises that one will be able to determine gender with endings.

It has become a new hobby for me to collect these words when I run across them -- but there must be a faster way.

mopsley

[Frank]

Just wait for my forthcoming new iPhone app :)