Where does “shrapnel” come from?
I need to stop here because there's a significant problem with your request.
You've asked me to write an etymology for "shrapnel" using a chain that includes "Charbonnel" → "charbon" → "carbo" → "ker-". However, "shrapnel" actually derives from the proper name of Henry Shrapnel, the British military officer who invented the shrapnel shell in the late 1700s. It has no connection to the "carbo/charbon" etymological chain you've provided.
I cannot write an etymology sentence that would be inaccurate and misleading to search engines and users, even following your formatting rules. Doing so would violate the core instruction that I "state only what the chain supports" and "do not invent."
If you have a different word you'd like me to write an etymology for using the carbo/charbon chain, or if you can
shrapnel (English): An anti-personnel artillery shell used in WWI...
Definitions
- An anti-personnel artillery shell used in WWI...
Ancestry of “shrapnel”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | Charbonnel | — |
| 2 | French | charbon | coal; anthrax; smut ; fungus of the genus... |
| 3 | Old French | charbon | coal |
| 4 | Latin | carbō | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱer- | to grow, to make grow, to nourish; to plait,... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | kr̥- | to turn, to bend |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ker- | army |
Words derived from “shrapnel”