Where does “wokefishing” come from?
wokefishing (English) comes from English wokefish, from English catfish, from English Cat, from English concatenate, from Latin concatenatus, from Latin concateno, from Latin cōn-, from Latin cum — resin, gum; to say, speak.
wokefishing (English): The activity of wokefish
Definitions
- The activity of wokefish
Ancestry of “wokefishing”, step by step
wokefishing traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English wokefish
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | wokefish | Someone who pretends to be woke and in favour of progressive political ideologies on a social media or dating platform |
| 2 | English | catfish | any fish of the order Siluriformes, mainly found... |
| 3 | English | Cat | A piece of heavy machinery, such as a backhoe, of... |
| 4 | English | concatenate | To join or link together, as though in a chain;... |
| 5 | Latin | concatenatus | which is to be linked or bound together or connected |
| 6 | Latin | concateno | concatenate; link or chain together |
| 7 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 8 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 9 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 13 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 14 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 15 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 16 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 17 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
via English ing
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ing | A meadow, especially a low meadow near a river;... |
| 2 | Middle English | ing | — |
| 3 | Old English | ing | meadow, water meadow, ing |
| 4 | Old Norse | eng | meadow |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | angijō | A low lying meadow in a valley or near a river |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂énkos | curve, bend |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -os | Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs;... |