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Where does “armchaired” come from?

armchaired (English) comes from English armchair, from English chair, from English Chuck, from English chock, from French choquer, from German schockieren, from Spanish chocar, from Portuguese chocar.

armchaired (English): Furnished with armchairs; Seated in an armchair;...

Definitions

  1. Furnished with armchairs; Seated in an armchair;...

Ancestry of “armchaired”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglisharmchairA chair with supports for the arms or elbows;...
2EnglishchairAn item of furniture used to sit on or in,...
3EnglishChucka Chuck Taylor All-Stars shoe
4EnglishchockAny object used as a wedge or filler, especially...
5Frenchchoquerto hit, to collide; to shock
6Germanschockieren—
7Spanishchocarto crash; to bump into, to collide with; to...
8Portuguesechocarto brood; to hatch; to linger
9Russianшоки́ровать—
10Russian-и́ровать—
11German-ierenVerb suffix: it and its inflected forms are found...
12French-erForms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs
13Middle French-erForms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs;...
14Old French-iersuffix used to form infinitives of first...
15Latin-ārius—
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