Where does “cailleter” come from?
cailleter (French) comes from French caillette, from French caille, from French cailler, from Old French quailler, from Vulgar Latin coaglare, from Latin coāgulō, from Latin coāgulum, from Latin cōgō — resin, gum; to say, speak.
cailleter (French): to gossip, chew the cud
Definitions
- to gossip, chew the cud
Ancestry of “cailleter”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | caillette | abomasum; curd; frivolous gossiping woman |
| 2 | French | caille | multicoloured, spotted; quail; inflection of... |
| 3 | French | cailler | to curdle, clot; To be very cold, to be brass... |
| 4 | Old French | quailler | Alternative form of coaillier |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | coaglare | — |
| 6 | Latin | coāgulō | to curdle; make thick, solid |
| 7 | Latin | coāgulum | tie, bond, binding agent |
| 8 | Latin | cōgō | to collect, assemble, gather together |
| 9 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 10 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 11 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 15 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 16 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 17 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 18 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 19 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 20 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |