Where does “squashen” come from?
squashen (Dutch) comes from Dutch squash, from English squash, from Middle English squachen, from Old French esquacher, from Vulgar Latin excoactiare, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō, from Latin commūnis — whale, sea monster; abyss.
Ancestry of “squashen”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Dutch | squash | — |
| 2 | English | squash | A sport played in a walled court with a soft... |
| 3 | Middle English | squachen | — |
| 4 | Old French | esquacher | — |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | excoactiare | — |
| 6 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 7 | Latin | commūnicō | — |
| 8 | Latin | commūnis | — |
| 9 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 16 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 17 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |