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
- The office, or the term, of a chairman
Ancestry of “chairmanship”, step by step
| 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 | Middle French | -er | Forms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs;... |
| 14 | Old French | -ier | suffix used to form infinitives of first... |
| 15 | Latin | -ārius | er |