Where does “e-chat” come from?
e-chat (English) comes from English chat, from English chatter, from English -er, from Middle English -er, from Old French -er, from Latin -āre, from Proto-Italic -āō, from Proto-Indo-European -eh₂yéti — he, she.
Ancestry of “e-chat”, step by step
e-chat traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English chat
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | chat | To be engaged in informal conversation; To talk... |
| 2 | English | chatter | Talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk;... |
| 3 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 4 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 5 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 6 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 11 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via English E
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | E | The ordinal number fifth, derived from this... |
| 2 | Old English | E | — |
| 3 | Latin | E | Scribal abbreviation of the diphthong ae |
| 4 | Etruscan | 𐌄 | — |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | ε | Lower case epsilon, the fifth letter of the ancient and modern Greek alphabets. Its name was εἶ, later ἒ ψιλόν, and presently έψιλον. It represents roughly the same sound in both alphabets: in Modern Greek, a somewhat lowered variant of the mid front unrounded vowel: or. It is preceded by δ and foll |
| 6 | Phoenician | 𐤄 | that |
| 7 | Egyptian | 𓀠 | — |