Where does “chuckable” come from?
chuckable (English) comes from English Chuck, from English chock, from French choquer, from German schockieren, from Spanish chocar, from Portuguese chocar, from Russian шоки́ровать, from Russian -и́ровать.
chuckable (English): Suitable for being secured in a chuck; Suitable...
Definitions
- Suitable for being secured in a chuck; Suitable...
Ancestry of “chuckable”, step by step
chuckable traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Chuck
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Chuck | a Chuck Taylor All-Stars shoe |
| 2 | English | chock | Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially... |
| 3 | French | choquer | to hit, to collide; to shock |
| 4 | German | schockieren | to shock |
| 5 | Spanish | chocar | to crash; to bump into, to collide with; to... |
| 6 | Portuguese | chocar | to brood; to hatch; to linger |
| 7 | Russian | шоки́ровать | to horrify, to scandalize, to shock |
| 8 | Russian | -и́ровать | a productive verbal suffix, also used to create new verbs, especially from loanwords |
| 9 | German | -ieren | Verb suffix: it and its inflected forms are found... |
| 10 | French | -er | Forms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs |
| 11 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 12 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 13 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 14 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 15 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
via English able
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | able | Easy to use; Suitable; competent; Liable to |
| 2 | Middle English | able | capable, expert, qualified, skilful, competent |
| 3 | Old French | able | able; capable |
| 4 | Latin | habilis | able to have/possess/maintain; having sufficient... |
| 5 | Latin | -ilis | -ile |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -elis | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -elis | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |