Where does “chookie” come from?
chookie (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.
chookie (English): A small or young domestic fowl; a chick
Definitions
- A small or young domestic fowl; a chick
Ancestry of “chookie”, step by step
chookie traces back through 3 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 Cookie
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Cookie | An endearing or condescending nickname |
| 2 | English | Cook | A placename |
| 3 | German | kochen | to cook, to prepare food; to boil; to be stirred... |
| 4 | Middle High German | kochen | to cook |
| 5 | Old High German | kohhōn | to cook |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | kukōną | to cook |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | kukaz | cook |
| 8 | Latin | coquus | A cook; person who makes food |
| 9 | Latin | coquō | to cook; prepare food |
| 10 | Latin | quoquo | ablative masculine singular of quisquis; ablative... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kʷekʷō | to cook |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | pékʷeti | to be cooking; to ripen |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | pekʷ- | to cook; to ripen |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃-ép-kʷ- | — |
via English cheesecake
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | cheesecake | A pie made of sweetened and flavoured cottage... |
| 2 | English | cake | A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of... |
| 3 | Middle English | cake | cake; A cake prepared to cure disease or illness;... |
| 4 | Old Norse | kaka | cake |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | kakǭ | cake |