Where does “slugger” come from?
I need to work through this chain carefully, but I notice there's a significant problem: this etymology chain doesn't make linguistic sense.
The chain provided appears to trace: English slug → Chinese 兒 (which means "child/son") → Proto-Germanic slahaną (meaning "to strike/hit") → Latin -are (verb infinitive marker) → Latin -arius (agent suffix) → Latin -us (nominative masculine marker) → Proto-Italic -os (nominative marker).
This chain is incoherent. English "slugger" (one who slugs/hits) would logically derive from English "slug" + the agent suffix "-er," with "slug" itself coming from Proto-Germanic or Scandinavian sources meaning to hit. The inclusion of Chinese 兒 and the subsequent Latin elements don't represent a real etymological path for this word.
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slugger (English): a boxer who tends to deliver hard punches; a...
Definitions
- a boxer who tends to deliver hard punches; a...
Ancestry of “slugger”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 2 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 3 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 4 | Latin | -āre | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 9 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |