Where does “shancelar” come from?
shancelar (Ido) comes from Esperanto ŝanceli, from French chanceler, from Latin cancellō, from Latin cancellus, from Latin cancer, from Proto-Italic kankros, from Proto-Italic karkros, from Proto-Indo-European kr̥-kr̥- — to cut, cut off, sever.
shancelar (Ido): to stagger, totter, waver, dodder
Definitions
- to stagger, totter, waver, dodder
Ancestry of “shancelar”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Esperanto | ŝanceli | to rock, push back and forth |
| 2 | French | chanceler | to stagger, totter, reel; to wobble; to falter,... |
| 3 | Latin | cancellō | — |
| 4 | Latin | cancellus | one of the bars which, in the form of a grid,... |
| 5 | Latin | cancer | a crab; a tumor, cancer; a lattice, grid, or... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | kankros | crab |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | karkros | enclosure, barrier |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | kr̥-kr̥- | circular |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)ker- | to cut off; to turn, bend |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | sek- | to cut, cut off, sever |
Words derived from “shancelar”