Where does “wheelchair basketball” come from?
wheelchair basketball (English) comes from English wheelchair, from English chair, from English Chuck, from English chock, from French choquer, from German schockieren, from Spanish chocar, from Portuguese chocar.
wheelchair basketball (English): A sport derived from basketball, played by people...
Definitions
- A sport derived from basketball, played by people...
Ancestry of “wheelchair basketball”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | wheelchair | A chair mounted on large wheels for the... |
| 2 | English | chair | An item of furniture used to sit on or in,... |
| 3 | English | Chuck | a Chuck Taylor All-Stars shoe |
| 4 | English | chock | Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially... |
| 5 | French | choquer | to hit, to collide; to shock |
| 6 | German | schockieren | — |
| 7 | Spanish | chocar | to crash; to bump into, to collide with; to... |
| 8 | Portuguese | chocar | to brood; to hatch; to linger |
| 9 | Russian | шоки́ровать | — |
| 10 | Russian | -и́ровать | — |
| 11 | German | -ieren | Verb suffix: it and its inflected forms are found... |
| 12 | French | -er | Forms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs |
| 13 | Middle French | -er | Forms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs;... |
| 14 | Old French | -ier | suffix used to form infinitives of first... |
| 15 | Latin | -ārius | — |