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Where does “chokingly” come from?

chokingly (English) comes from English choking, from English choke, from Middle English choken, from Middle English acheken, from Middle English a-, from Old English ā-, from Old English ar-, from Proto-West Germanic uʀ- — out, outward.

chokingly (English): While or as if choking, or in such a way as to...

Definitions

  1. While or as if choking, or in such a way as to...

Ancestry of “chokingly”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishchokingThe process in which a person's airway becomes...
2EnglishchokeTo be unable to breathe because of obstruction of...
3Middle Englishchoken—
4Middle Englishacheken—
5Middle Englisha-up, out, away; of; on, in
6Old Englishā-a-; away, out
7Old Englishar-—
8Proto-West Germanicuʀ-out, over; off, away
9Proto-Germanicuz-up, out
10Proto-Indo-Europeanuss-—
11Proto-Indo-Europeanuds-up, out
12Proto-Indo-Europeanúdout, outward
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