Where does “chantaxe” come from?
chantaxe (Galician) comes from French chantage, from French -age, from Middle French -age, from Old French -age, from Old Occitan -atge, from Latin -āticum.
chantaxe (Galician): plantain
Definitions
- plantain
Ancestry of “chantaxe”, step by step
chantaxe traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French chantage
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | chantage | blackmail, shakedown |
| 2 | French | -age | Forming nouns with the sense of "action or result... |
| 3 | Middle French | -age | forms nouns with the sense of "action or result... |
| 4 | Old French | -age | forms nouns with the sense of 'action or result... |
| 5 | Old Occitan | -atge | suffix used to form masculine nouns |
| 6 | Latin | -āticum | — |
via Latin plantāgō
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | plantāgō | the plantain, especially the greater plantain |
| 2 | Latin | planta | any vegetable production that serves to propagate... |
| 3 | Proto-Italic | plāntā | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | pléh₂-n̥t-eh₂ | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | pleh₂- | flat |