Where does “geokätkö” come from?
geokätkö (Finnish) comes from English geocache, from English cache, from French caché, from French cacher, from Old French cachier, from Vulgar Latin coacticare, from Latin coactō, from Latin coactus — a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden...
geokätkö (Finnish): geocache
Definitions
- geocache
Ancestry of “geokätkö”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | geocache | A container hidden in a specific location during... |
| 2 | English | cache | A store of things that may be required in the... |
| 3 | French | caché | past participle of cacher; hidden |
| 4 | French | cacher | to hide; Alternative spelling of casher |
| 5 | Old French | cachier | to hide; Alternative form of chacier |
| 6 | Vulgar Latin | coacticare | present active infinitive of *coacticō |
| 7 | Latin | coactō | to compel, constrain, force |
| 8 | Latin | coactus | forced, compelled, having been forced; urged,... |
| 9 | Latin | cōgō | to collect, assemble, gather together |
| 10 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 11 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 12 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 16 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 17 | Middle Dutch | kitte | a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden... |