Where does “chook chaser” come from?
chook chaser (English) comes from English chook, from English Chuck, from English chock, from French choquer, from German schockieren, from Spanish chocar, from Portuguese chocar, from Russian шоки́ровать — he, she.
chook chaser (English): A trail bike or other small motorcycle; A person...
Definitions
- A trail bike or other small motorcycle; A person...
Ancestry of “chook chaser”, step by step
chook chaser traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English chook
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | chook | A chicken, especially a hen; A cooked chicken; a... |
| 2 | English | Chuck | a Chuck Taylor All-Stars shoe |
| 3 | English | chock | Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially... |
| 4 | French | choquer | to hit, to collide; to shock |
| 5 | German | schockieren | to shock |
| 6 | Spanish | chocar | to crash; to bump into, to collide with; to... |
| 7 | Portuguese | chocar | to brood; to hatch; to linger |
| 8 | Russian | шоки́ровать | to horrify, to scandalize, to shock |
| 9 | Russian | -и́ровать | a productive verbal suffix, also used to create new verbs, especially from loanwords |
| 10 | German | -ieren | Verb suffix: it and its inflected forms are found... |
| 11 | French | -er | Forms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs |
| 12 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 13 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 14 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 15 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 16 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 19 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 20 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via English chaser
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | chaser | A person or thing that chases; A hunter; A... |
| 2 | English | Chase | from a nickname for a hunter |
| 3 | French | châsse | reliquary; coffin |
| 4 | Middle French | chasse | — |
| 5 | Old French | chace | hunt; inflection of chacer: ## first/third-person... |
| 6 | Old French | chacier | to hunt, to go hunting |
| 7 | Latin | captiāre | to hunt |
| 8 | Latin | captus | captured, having been captured, seized, having... |
| 9 | Latin | capiō | to take, to capture, to catch, to seize, to take captive, to storm |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kapiō | take |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kapjō | take, seize |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | kh₂pyéti | — |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | keh₂p- | to seize, grab; to seize; take up; lift; to take,... |