Where does “cocovore” come from?
cocovore (English) comes from English coconut, from English coco, from French coco, from Middle French coche, from German Kutsche, from French couché, from French coucher, from Middle French coucher — to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,...
cocovore (English): An eater of coconuts; someone subsisting primarily on coconut
Definitions
- An eater of coconuts; someone subsisting primarily on coconut
Ancestry of “cocovore”, step by step
cocovore traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English coconut
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | coconut | A fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed |
| 2 | English | coco | Coconut palm; Coconut, the fruit of the coconut... |
| 3 | French | coco | Fruit of the coconut palm, also called noix de... |
| 4 | Middle French | coche | — |
| 5 | German | Kutsche | carriage; coach; A large, old automobile in poor... |
| 6 | French | couché | past participle of coucher; in bed |
| 7 | French | coucher | to lay, to lay down; to put to bed, to put up; to... |
| 8 | Middle French | coucher | to put to bed; setting |
| 9 | Old French | couchier | to go to bed; to have sex; bedtime |
| 10 | Latin | collocō | to place, put, set in order, assign, arrange |
| 11 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 12 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 13 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 17 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 18 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 19 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 20 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 21 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 22 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 23 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |
via English vore
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | vore | The genre of creative work appreciated by... |
| 2 | English | Vaux | One of four communes in France |
| 3 | English | -ite | Used to form nouns denoting followers or... |
| 4 | French | -ité | Alternative form of -té, giving a quality or... |
| 5 | Latin | -īta | — |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | -ίτης | Suffix forming a masculine noun: one connected... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | πολῑ́της | citizen |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | -της | Forms nouns representing a state of being; Added... |
| 9 | Proto-Hellenic | -tāts | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -teh₂ts | Used to form nouns representing state of being |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -teh₂ | Used to form nouns representing state of being |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -tós | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |