Where does “chucking” come from?

Chucking derives from English chuck, from English chicken, from English chick, from Middle English -en, from Old English -en, from Proto-Germanic jainaz, from Proto-Indo-European i-, from Proto-Indo-European i-.

chucking (English): present participle of chuck; The holding of an...

Definitions

  1. present participle of chuck; The holding of an...

Ancestry of “chucking”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishchuckMeat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal;...
2EnglishchockAny object used as a wedge or filler, especially...
3Frenchchoquerto hit, to collide; to shock
4Germanschockierento shock
5Spanishchocarto crash; to bump into, to collide with; to...
6Portuguesechocarto brood; to hatch; to linger
7Russianшоки́роватьto horrify, to scandalize, to shock
8Russian-и́роватьa productive verbal suffix, also used to create new verbs, especially from loanwords
9German-ierenVerb suffix: it and its inflected forms are found...
10French-erForms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs
11English-erA person or thing that does an action indicated...
12Middle English-eragentive suffix; agent noun suffix
13Old French-erAlternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;...
14Latin-ārefirst conjugation
15Proto-Italic-āōForms primarily denominative verbs
16Proto-Indo-European-eh₂yétiCreates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive...
17Proto-Indo-European-yétiCreates intransitive, often deponent,...
18Proto-Indo-Europeanyé-
Every word from Proto-Indo-European yé-
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