Where does “chasey” come from?
chasey (English) comes from English Chase, from French châsse, from Middle French chasse, from Old French chace, from Old French chacier, from Latin captiāre, from Latin captus, from Latin capiō — to seize, grab; to seize; take up; lift; to take,...
chasey (English): tag, the children's game
Definitions
- tag, the children's game
Ancestry of “chasey”, step by step
chasey 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,... |
via English Y
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Y | A figure or mark in the shape of the letter Y; A... |
| 2 | English | yuri | A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or... |
| 3 | Japanese | 百合 | lily |
| 4 | Japanese | 連用形 | an inflectional category: the continuative or... |
| 5 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 6 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 7 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 8 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 9 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |