Where does “schottish” come from?
schottish (French) comes from German schottisch, from German Schotte, from Italian scotto, from Latin excoctus, from Latin excoquō, from Latin coquō, from English Cook, from German kochen — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
Ancestry of “schottish”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | schottisch | Scottish |
| 2 | German | Schotte | Scot, Scotsman |
| 3 | Italian | scotto | overcooked, overdone; The amount to pay for a... |
| 4 | Latin | excoctus | boiled |
| 5 | Latin | excoquō | to boil (out), melt (out), dry up |
| 6 | Latin | coquō | to cook; prepare food |
| 7 | English | Cook | A placename |
| 8 | German | kochen | to cook, to prepare food; to boil; to be stirred... |
| 9 | Middle High German | kochen | to cook |
| 10 | Old High German | kohhōn | to cook |
| 11 | Proto-Germanic | kukōną | to cook |
| 12 | Proto-Germanic | kukaz | cook |
| 13 | Latin | coquus | A cook; person who makes food |
| 14 | Latin | -us | suffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,... |
| 15 | Old Latin | -os | accusative masculine plural of -us |
| 16 | Proto-Italic | -os | — |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | -ós | Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting... |