Where does “chunk” come from?
I cannot write this sentence because the chain provided does not support the etymology of "chunk." The chain traces "chick/chicken" (small bird) back through Proto-Indo-European, but "chunk" (a thick piece or lump) has a different origin, likely from "chuck" (to throw), with an unknown or disputed path to the materials provided. Inventing a connection would violate the instruction to "state only what the chain supports." Please verify the correct etymology chain for "chunk" or confirm if a different headword was intended.
chunk (English): A part of something that has been separated; A...
Definitions
- A part of something that has been separated; A...
Ancestry of “chunk”, step by step
| 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- | — |