Where does “chatgroup” come from?
chatgroup (English) comes from English chat, from English chatter, from English -er, from Middle English -er, from Old French -er, from Latin -āre, from Proto-Italic -āō, from Proto-Indo-European -eh₂yéti — he, she.
chatgroup (English): An online community allowing users to take part...
Definitions
- An online community allowing users to take part...
Ancestry of “chatgroup”, step by step
chatgroup traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English chat
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | chat | To be engaged in informal conversation; To talk... |
| 2 | English | chatter | Talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk;... |
| 3 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 4 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 5 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 6 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 11 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via English Group
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Group | A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another |
| 2 | French | groupe | group |
| 3 | Italian | gruppo | group, cluster, party, team, covey; pack; peloton |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | cruppo | — |
| 5 | Renaissance Latin | grupus | — |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | kruppaz | a body; mass; a compressed, round mass; lump;... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | grewb- | to warp, bend, crawl; to bend, crouch, crawl; to... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ger- | to turn, bend, twist, wind; to tie, bind... |