Where does “cooley” come from?
cooley (Chinook Jargon) comes from French courir, from Latin percurrere, from Latin per, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos — that.
cooley (Chinook Jargon): to run, hurry
Definitions
- to run, hurry
Ancestry of “cooley”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | courir | to run; to go |
| 2 | Latin | percurrere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 3 | Latin | per | through, by means of; throughout, during |
| 4 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 5 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 6 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 7 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |