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
- While or as if choking, or in such a way as to...
Ancestry of “chokingly”, step by step
chokingly traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English choking
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | choking | The process in which a person's airway becomes... |
| 2 | English | choke | To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of... |
| 3 | Middle English | choken | To asphyxiate or strangle to cause to choke |
| 4 | Middle English | acheken | To asphyxiate to cause to choke |
| 5 | Middle English | a- | up, out, away; of; on, in |
| 6 | Old English | ā- | a-; away, out |
| 7 | Old English | ar- | — |
| 8 | Proto-West Germanic | uʀ- | out, over; off, away |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | uz- | up, out |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | uss- | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | uds- | up, out |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | úd | out, outward |