Where does “chairmanager” come from?
chairmanager (English) comes from English chairman, from English chair, from English Chuck, from English chock, from French choquer, from German schockieren, from Spanish chocar, from Portuguese chocar — he, she.
chairmanager (English): A person who holds the position of both chairman...
Definitions
- A person who holds the position of both chairman...
Ancestry of “chairmanager”, step by step
chairmanager traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English chairman
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | chairman | A person presiding over a meeting; The head of a... |
| 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 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 14 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 15 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 16 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 17 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 19 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 20 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 21 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |