Where does “elektrosokk-terápia” come from?

elektrosokk-terápia (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian elektrosokk, from German Elektroschock, from German Schock, from English shock, from French choquer, from German schockieren, from Spanish chocar, from Portuguese chocar — er.

elektrosokk-terápia (Hungarian): electroconvulsive therapy, electroshock therapy, shock therapy, Edison's medicine, ECT a biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient

Definitions

  1. electroconvulsive therapy, electroshock therapy, shock therapy, Edison's medicine, ECT a biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient

Ancestry of “elektrosokk-terápia”, step by step

elektrosokk-terápia traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Hungarian elektrosokk

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianelektrosokkelectroshock
2GermanElektroschockelectric shock
3GermanSchockshock; A unitless measure indicating sixty; Such...
4EnglishshockA sudden, heavy impact; A discontinuity arising...
5Frenchchoquerto hit, to collide; to shock
6Germanschockierento shock
7Spanishchocarto crash; to bump into, to collide with; to...
8Portuguesechocarto brood; to hatch; to linger
9Russianшоки́роватьto horrify, to scandalize, to shock
10Russian-и́роватьa productive verbal suffix, also used to create new verbs, especially from loanwords
11German-ierenVerb suffix: it and its inflected forms are found...
12French-erForms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs
13Middle French-erForms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs;...
14Old French-iersuffix used to form infinitives of first...
15Latin-āriuser

via Hungarian terápia

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianterápiatherapy
2Latintherapiatherapy
3Ancient Greekθεραπείαa waiting on service; medical treatment
4Ancient Greekθεραπεύωto wait on, attend, serve; to obey; to flatter,...
5Ancient Greek-εύωAdded to the stems of agent or other nouns in...
6Ancient Greek-εύςAdded to noun or adjective stems to form a...

Words derived from “elektrosokk-terápia

Every word from Latin -āriusEvery word from French -erEvery word from German -ieren