Where does “cocksure” come from?
I need to analyze this etymology chain, but I notice it appears to be corrupted or circular—it shows "English cocking | English ten" repeating multiple times without clear progression to older languages or a coherent etymological path.
Given the rules require me to "state only what the chain supports" and "do not invent dates, cognates, or intermediate steps," I cannot construct an accurate sentence from this data. A proper etymology would show a clear progression through different languages (e.g., English → Old English → Proto-Germanic, etc.), but this chain doesn't provide that.
**I cannot write the sentence because the provided chain does not support a valid etymological statement.**
If you have the correct etymological chain for "cocksure," I'd be happy to write the summary sentence following all the rules.
cocksure (English): too confident; overconfident
Definitions
- too confident; overconfident
Ancestry of “cocksure”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | cock | A male bird, "especially:"; A valve or tap for... |
| 2 | Middle English | cok | rooster, cock; rooster crest, comb; heraldic... |
| 3 | Old English | cōc | a cook |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | cocus | — |
| 5 | Latin | coquus | A cook; person who makes food |
| 6 | Latin | coquō | — |
| 7 | English | Cook | — |
| 8 | German | kochen | to cook, to prepare food; to boil; to be stirred... |
| 9 | Middle High German | kochen | to cook |
| 10 | Old High German | kohhōn | to cook |
| 11 | Proto-Germanic | kukōną | to cook |
| 12 | Latin | coquere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | kʷekʷō | to cook |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | pékʷeti | to be cooking; to ripen |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | pekʷ- | to cook; to ripen |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃-ép-kʷ- | — |
Words derived from “cocksure”