Where does “tsirman” come from?

tsirman (Cebuano) comes from English chairman, from English chair, from English Chuck, from English chock, from French choquer, from German schockieren, from Spanish chocar, from Portuguese chocar — er.

tsirman (Cebuano): a person presiding over a meeting

Definitions

  1. a person presiding over a meeting

Ancestry of “tsirman”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishchairmanA person presiding over a meeting; The head of a...
2EnglishchairAn item of furniture used to sit on or in,...
3EnglishChucka Chuck Taylor All-Stars shoe
4EnglishchockAny object used as a wedge or filler, especially...
5Frenchchoquerto hit, to collide; to shock
6Germanschockierento shock
7Spanishchocarto crash; to bump into, to collide with; to...
8Portuguesechocarto brood; to hatch; to linger
9Russianшоки́роватьto horrify, to scandalize, to shock
10Russian-и́роватьa productive verbal suffix, also used to create new verbs, especially from loanwords
11German-ierenVerb suffix: it and its inflected forms are found...
12French-erForms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs
13Middle French-erForms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs;...
14Old French-iersuffix used to form infinitives of first...
15Latin-āriuser
Every word from Latin -āriusEvery word from French -erEvery word from German -ieren
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