Where does “Couch” come from?
Couch comes from Old French colchier, from Latin colloco, combining Latin con- with a root meaning to place or lay down.
Couch (English): An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the...
Definitions
- An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the...
Ancestry of “Couch”, step by step
Couch traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Middle English couche
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | couche | A bed; A bedroom; the room where one sleeps in; A... |
| 2 | Old French | couche | — |
| 3 | Old French | couchier | to go to bed; to have sex; bedtime |
| 4 | Latin | collocō | to place, put, set in order, assign, arrange |
| 5 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 6 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 7 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 11 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 12 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 13 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 14 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 15 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |
via Middle English cowche
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | cowche | Alternative form of couchen |