Where does “chook raffle” come from?
chook raffle (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 — Creates intransitive, often deponent,...
chook raffle (English): A fund-raising raffle in which an uncooked,...
Definitions
- A fund-raising raffle in which an uncooked,...
Ancestry of “chook raffle”, step by step
chook raffle 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,... |
via English raffle
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | raffle | A drawing, often held as a fundraiser, in which... |
| 2 | Middle English | rafle | — |
| 3 | Old French | rafle | — |
| 4 | Old French | rafler | to snatch, seize, carry off; to plunder |
| 5 | Frankish | raffolōn | — |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | hrapōną | to scratch, scrape |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)kreb(h)- | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)ḱer- | dung, manure, filth; manure, dung, filth |