Where does “chest” come from?
Chest comes from Middle English chiste, from Old French geste, from Latin gesta, ultimately from Latin causa.
chest (English): A box, now usually a large strong box with a...
Definitions
- A box, now usually a large strong box with a...
Ancestry of “chest”, step by step
chest traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Chester
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Chester | A child molester |
| 2 | English | molester | Agent noun of molest: one who molests;... |
| 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 Middle English chest
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | chest | fighting, strife, battle; quarrelling,... |
| 2 | Old English | ċēast | strife, contention |
| 3 | Old English | ċēas | strife, quarrel, quarrelling, contention,... |
| 4 | Old Church Slavonic | часъ | time; moment; hour |
| 5 | Proto-Slavic | časъ | time |
| 6 | Proto-Balto-Slavic | keʔs- | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | k(ʷ)eh₁s- | — |