Where does “wak apesuchi” come from?

wak apesuchi (Choctaw) comes from Proto-Germanic wak-, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂g- — to shatter, to break asunder.

wak apesuchi (Choctaw): cowboy

Definitions

  1. cowboy

Ancestry of “wak apesuchi”, step by step

wak apesuchi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Germanic wak-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicwak-—
2Proto-Indo-European*weh₂g-to shatter, to break asunder

via Choctaw apesuchi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Choctawapesuchimanager
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂g- →Every word from Proto-Germanic wak- →