Where does “ĉasi” come from?
ĉasi (Esperanto) comes from English Chase, from French châsse, from Middle French chasse, from Old French chace, from Old French chacier, from Latin captiāre, from Latin captus, from Latin capiō — to seize, grab; to seize; take up; lift; to take,...
ĉasi (Esperanto): to hunt
Definitions
- to hunt
Ancestry of “ĉasi”, step by step
ĉasi traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via English Chase
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Chase | from a nickname for a hunter |
| 2 | French | châsse | reliquary; coffin |
| 3 | Middle French | chasse | — |
| 4 | Old French | chace | hunt; inflection of chacer: ## first/third-person... |
| 5 | Old French | chacier | to hunt, to go hunting |
| 6 | Latin | captiāre | to hunt |
| 7 | Latin | captus | captured, having been captured, seized, having... |
| 8 | Latin | capiō | to take, to capture, to catch, to seize, to take captive, to storm |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kapiō | take |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kapjō | take, seize |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | kh₂pyéti | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | keh₂p- | to seize, grab; to seize; take up; lift; to take,... |
via Spanish cazar
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | cazar | to hunt; to catch |
| 2 | Late Latin | captiare | present active infinitive of captiō;... |
| 3 | Latin | captio | deception, fraud, deceit, trick; quibble; catch |
| 4 | Latin | -tio | -tion, -ation, -ing |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -tjō | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tis | Derives abstract/action nouns from verb roots |
via Italian cacciare
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | cacciare | to hunt, to prey on; to hunt, to shoot, to snare;... |