Where does “Schaukel” come from?
Schaukel (German) comes from Low German Schukel, from Low German schuckeln, from Middle Dutch schocken, from English shock, from French choquer, from German schockieren, from Spanish chocar, from Portuguese chocar — er.
Schaukel (German): swing; any swinging construction, including...
Definitions
- swing; any swinging construction, including...
Ancestry of “Schaukel”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Low German | Schukel | — |
| 2 | Low German | schuckeln | to rock; to swing; to sway |
| 3 | Middle Dutch | schocken | to jolt, bounce |
| 4 | English | shock | A sudden, heavy impact; A discontinuity arising... |
| 5 | French | choquer | to hit, to collide; to shock |
| 6 | German | schockieren | to shock |
| 7 | Spanish | chocar | to crash; to bump into, to collide with; to... |
| 8 | Portuguese | chocar | to brood; to hatch; to linger |
| 9 | Russian | шоки́ровать | to horrify, to scandalize, to shock |
| 10 | Russian | -и́ровать | a productive verbal suffix, also used to create new verbs, especially from loanwords |
| 11 | German | -ieren | Verb suffix: it and its inflected forms are found... |
| 12 | French | -er | Forms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs |
| 13 | Middle French | -er | Forms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs;... |
| 14 | Old French | -ier | suffix used to form infinitives of first... |
| 15 | Latin | -ārius | er |