Where does “chicanerie” come from?

chicanerie (French) comes from French chicaner, from Middle French chicaner, from Middle Low German schicken, from Old Saxon *skikkian, from Proto-Germanic *skikkijan.

chicanerie (French): niggling; hairsplitting

Definitions

  1. niggling; hairsplitting

Ancestry of “chicanerie”, step by step

chicanerie traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French chicaner

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchchicanerto get into an argument; to quibble, squabble
2Middle Frenchchicaner—
3Middle Low Germanschicken—
4Old Saxon*skikkian—
5Proto-Germanic*skikkijan—

via Middle French chiquanerie

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchchiquanerie—

Words derived from “chicanerie”

Every word from Proto-Germanic *skikkijan →Every word from Old Saxon *skikkian →Every word from Middle Low German schicken →