Where does “chairlessness” come from?
chairlessness (English) comes from English chairless, from English chair, from English Chuck, from English chock, from French choquer, from German schockieren, from Spanish chocar, from Portuguese chocar — er.
chairlessness (English): Absence of chairs
Definitions
- Absence of chairs
Ancestry of “chairlessness”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | chairless | Without a chair or chairs |
| 2 | English | chair | An item of furniture used to sit on or in,... |
| 3 | English | Chuck | a Chuck Taylor All-Stars shoe |
| 4 | English | chock | Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially... |
| 5 | French | choquer | to hit, to collide; to shock |
| 6 | German | schockieren | to shock |
| 7 | Spanish | chocar | to crash; to bump into, to collide with; to... |
| 8 | Portuguese | chocar | to brood; to hatch; to linger |
| 9 | Russian | шоки́ровать | to horrify, to scandalize, to shock |
| 10 | Russian | -и́ровать | a productive verbal suffix, also used to create new verbs, especially from loanwords |
| 11 | German | -ieren | Verb suffix: it and its inflected forms are found... |
| 12 | French | -er | Forms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs |
| 13 | Middle French | -er | Forms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs;... |
| 14 | Old French | -ier | suffix used to form infinitives of first... |
| 15 | Latin | -ārius | er |