Where does “chair” come from?
chair (Gallo) comes from Old French cheoir, from Latin cadēre, from Latin cadō, from Proto-Italic kadō, from Proto-Indo-European ḱad- — to fall.
chair (Gallo): to fall; to crash
Ancestry of “chair”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Old French | cheoir | to fall; to fall out; to happen |
| 2 | Latin | cadēre | — |
| 3 | Latin | cadō | — |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | kadō | fall, sink |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱad- | to fall |