Where does “wokefish” come from?
wokefish (English) comes from English catfish, from English Cat, from English concatenate, from Latin concatenatus, from Latin concateno, from Latin cōn-, from Latin cum, from Old Latin com — to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,...
wokefish (English): Someone who pretends to be woke and in favour of progressive political ideologies on a social media or dating platform
Definitions
- Someone who pretends to be woke and in favour of progressive political ideologies on a social media or dating platform
Ancestry of “wokefish”, step by step
wokefish traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English catfish
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | catfish | any fish of the order Siluriformes, mainly found... |
| 2 | English | Cat | A piece of heavy machinery, such as a backhoe, of... |
| 3 | English | concatenate | To join or link together, as though in a chain;... |
| 4 | Latin | concatenatus | which is to be linked or bound together or connected |
| 5 | Latin | concateno | concatenate; link or chain together |
| 6 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 7 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 8 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 12 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 13 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 14 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 15 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 16 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |
via English woke
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | woke | Awake: conscious and not asleep; Alert, aware of... |
| 2 | English | woken up | past participle of wake up |
| 3 | English | wake up | To awake; To awaken somebody; To become more... |
| 4 | English | wake | To stop sleeping; To make somebody stop sleeping;... |
| 5 | Middle English | wake | Alternative form of woke |
| 6 | Old English | wacu | wake, watch |
| 7 | Old English | ford | ford |
| 8 | Proto-West Germanic | furdu | ford |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | furduz | ford |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | pértus | crossing |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |