Where does “chunkiness” come from?
chunkiness (English) comes from English chunky, from English chunk, from English Chuck, from English chock, from French choquer, from German schockieren, from Spanish chocar, from Portuguese chocar — er.
chunkiness (English): the state of being chunky
Definitions
- the state of being chunky
Ancestry of “chunkiness”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | chunky | Having chunks; Fat; Of a cat: having a large,... |
| 2 | English | chunk | A part of something that has been separated; A... |
| 3 | English | Chuck | a Chuck Taylor All-Stars shoe |
| 4 | English | chock | Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially... |
| 5 | French | choquer | to hit, to collide; to shock |
| 6 | German | schockieren | to shock |
| 7 | Spanish | chocar | to crash; to bump into, to collide with; to... |
| 8 | Portuguese | chocar | to brood; to hatch; to linger |
| 9 | Russian | шоки́ровать | to horrify, to scandalize, to shock |
| 10 | Russian | -и́ровать | a productive verbal suffix, also used to create new verbs, especially from loanwords |
| 11 | German | -ieren | Verb suffix: it and its inflected forms are found... |
| 12 | French | -er | Forms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs |
| 13 | Middle French | -er | Forms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs;... |
| 14 | Old French | -ier | suffix used to form infinitives of first... |
| 15 | Latin | -ārius | er |