Where does “chaser” come from?
Chaser comes from English chase, from French châsse, from Latin capsa meaning box or case, ultimately from Latin capio meaning to take or seize.
chaser (English): A person or thing that chases; A hunter; A...
Definitions
- A person or thing that chases; A hunter; A...
Ancestry of “chaser”, step by step
chaser traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Chase
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Chase | from a nickname for a hunter |
| 2 | French | châsse | reliquary; coffin |
| 3 | Middle French | chasse | — |
| 4 | Old French | chace | hunt; inflection of chacer: ## first/third-person... |
| 5 | Old French | chacier | to hunt, to go hunting |
| 6 | Latin | captiāre | to hunt |
| 7 | Latin | captus | captured, having been captured, seized, having... |
| 8 | Latin | capiō | to take, to capture, to catch, to seize, to take captive, to storm |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kapiō | take |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kapjō | take, seize |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | kh₂pyéti | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | keh₂p- | to seize, grab; to seize; take up; lift; to take,... |