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Where does “chairmanship” come from?

Chairmanship comes from English chairman and the suffix -ship, where chairman combines English chair from Latin cathedra, meaning a seat of authority, and English man from Middle English man, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ḱóm.

chairmanship (English): The office, or the term, of a chairman

Definitions

  1. The office, or the term, of a chairman

Ancestry of “chairmanship”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishchairmanA person presiding over a meeting; The head of a...
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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