Where does “자꾸만” come from?
자꾸만 (Korean) comes from Korean 자꾸, from Japanese チャック, from English Chuck, from English chock, from French choquer, from German schockieren, from Spanish chocar, from Portuguese chocar — er.
Ancestry of “자꾸만”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Korean | 자꾸 | repeatedly; incessantly |
| 2 | Japanese | チャック | a zipper, a zip fastener |
| 3 | English | Chuck | a Chuck Taylor All-Stars shoe |
| 4 | English | chock | Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially... |
| 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 |