Where does “attacking” come from?
Attacking derives from English attack, from French attaque and attaquer, from Italian attaccare meaning to fasten or strike, from Frankish stakka, from Proto-Indo-European (s)teg- meaning to stake or stick.
attacking (English): present participle of attack; Carrying out an...
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- present participle of attack; Carrying out an...
Ancestry of “attacking”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | attack | An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death... |
| 2 | French | attaque | attack; onset of a syllable; first-person... |
| 3 | French | attaquer | to attack |
| 4 | Italian | attaccare | to stick, attach, append; to attack |
| 5 | Italian | a- | ad-; a- |
| 6 | Italian | staccare | to remove, take or take down; to tear out; to... |
| 7 | Italian | distaccare | to separate; to remove, detach, or take off; to... |
| 8 | Middle French | destacher | to detach; to separate |
| 9 | Old French | destachier | to detach; to separate |
| 10 | Old French | atachier | to attach |
| 11 | Old French | estachier | Alternative form of atachier; bind; to fasten... |
| 12 | Old French | estache | stake; strap |
| 13 | Medieval Latin | staca | a stake |
| 14 | Gothic | 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌺𐌰 | — |
| 15 | Proto-Germanic | stakô | stake |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)teg- | to cover; pole, stick, beam |