Where does “cóiste” come from?
cóiste (Irish) comes from Middle French coche, from German Kutsche, from French couché, from French coucher, from Middle French coucher, from Old French couchier, from Latin collocō, from Latin cōn- — resin, gum; to say, speak.
cóiste (Irish): coach wheeled vehicle drawn by horse power, carriage
Definitions
- coach wheeled vehicle drawn by horse power, carriage
Ancestry of “cóiste”, step by step
cóiste traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Middle French coche
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | coche | — |
| 2 | German | Kutsche | carriage; coach; A large, old automobile in poor... |
| 3 | French | couché | past participle of coucher; in bed |
| 4 | French | coucher | to lay, to lay down; to put to bed, to put up; to... |
| 5 | Middle French | coucher | to put to bed; setting |
| 6 | Old French | couchier | to go to bed; to have sex; bedtime |
| 7 | Latin | collocō | to place, put, set in order, assign, arrange |
| 8 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 9 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 10 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 16 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 17 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 18 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 19 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
via Middle Irish coiste
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle Irish | coiste | jury |
| 2 | Old French | queste | search; act, instance of searching |
| 3 | Latin | quaesta | tribute, tax, inquiry, search |
| 4 | Latin | quaesita | nominative feminine singular of quaesītus;... |
| 5 | Latin | quaesitus | sought for, having been sought for; asked, having... |
| 6 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |