Where does “Christmas club” come from?
Christmas club (English) comes from English Christmas, from Middle English Cristemasse, from Old English Cristes mæsse, from Old English mæsse, from Vulgar Latin messa, from Latin missa, from Latin missum, from Latin mittō — to hurt; to exchange, remove; to replace, to...
Christmas club (English): A type of savings scheme in which a person pays...
Definitions
- A type of savings scheme in which a person pays...
Ancestry of “Christmas club”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | Christmas | Red and green , especially red and green chile... |
| 2 | Middle English | Cristemasse | — |
| 3 | Old English | Cristes mæsse | Christmas |
| 4 | Old English | mæsse | mass |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | messa | Eucharist, dismissal; Eucharist; dismissal;... |
| 6 | Latin | missa | Mass; Christian eucharistic liturgy; nominative... |
| 7 | Latin | missum | accusative supine of mittō; inflection of... |
| 8 | Latin | mittō | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | meitō | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | meyth₂- | to hurt; to exchange, remove; to replace, to... |