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Where does “coca” come from?

Coca derives from Catalan coca, from Quechua kuka, from Proto-Germanic kakǭ, from Proto-Indo-European gog, with the sense development unclear across the language chain.

coca (English): Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to...

Definitions

  1. Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to...

Ancestry of “coca”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Catalancocacoca
2Spanishcozkick
3Old Spanishcoçe—
4Latincalcemfirst-person singular present active subjunctive...

Words derived from “coca”

  • cocaine
  • coke
  • coax
  • cokes
  • coker
  • cokehead
  • cocaethylene
  • norcocaine
  • cocainism
  • coaxer
  • anticocaine
  • coak
  • anticoca
  • cocainization
  • cocainist
  • coky
  • semicoke
  • cocainelike
  • decoke
  • cokeless
  • cokelike
  • cocainize
  • cocainise
  • biocoke
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