## Etymology
From French chute ('fall, descent'), from Old French cheoite, feminine past participle of cheoir ('to fall'), from Latin cadere ('to fall'); in American English influenced by shoot.

## AI Etymology
Chute comes from French chute ('fall, descent'), from Old French cheoite, feminine past participle of cheoir ('to fall'), from Latin cadere ('to fall'); in American English influenced by shoot. The historical trail runs through chute in French and cadere in Latin. Used as a noun and verb, chute now means "a sloping channel for conveying things downward", so the present definition can be read against the older forms and meanings. The result is a borrowed or transmitted form whose modern spelling carries a compact record of its route into English.

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