Where does “chunklike” come from?
chunklike (English) comes from English chunk, from English Chuck, from English chock, from French choquer, from German schockieren, from Spanish chocar, from Portuguese chocar, from Russian шоки́ровать — Creates intransitive, often deponent,...
chunklike (English): Resembling or characteristic of a chunk
Definitions
- Resembling or characteristic of a chunk
Ancestry of “chunklike”, step by step
chunklike traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English chunk
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | chunk | A part of something that has been separated; 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,... |
via English like
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | like | To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of;... |
| 2 | Dutch | luik | hatch; shutter; panel, as in a triptych |
| 3 | Middle Dutch | luke | — |
| 4 | Dutch | luiken | to close, to shut |
| 5 | Middle Dutch | luken | to close, to shut; to close, to become closed |
| 6 | Old Dutch | lūcan | to close, shut |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | lūkan | to close, to shut |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | lūkaną | to close, to shut; Alternative form of *leukaną |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | lewǵ- | to break, tear; to break, shatter |