Where does “chacer” come from?
chacer (Middle English) comes from Old French chaceür, from Old French chacier, from Latin captiāre, from Latin captus, from Latin capiō, from Proto-Italic kapiō, from Proto-Italic kapjō, from Proto-Indo-European kh₂pyéti — to seize, grab; to seize; take up; lift; to take,...
Ancestry of “chacer”, step by step
chacer traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Old French chaceür
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | chaceür | — |
| 2 | Old French | chacier | to hunt, to go hunting |
| 3 | Latin | captiāre | to hunt |
| 4 | Latin | captus | captured, having been captured, seized, having... |
| 5 | Latin | capiō | to take, to capture, to catch, to seize, to take captive, to storm |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | kapiō | take |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | kapjō | take, seize |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | kh₂pyéti | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | keh₂p- | to seize, grab; to seize; take up; lift; to take,... |
via Old French chaceor
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | chaceor | hunter; hunting horse |
| 2 | Old French | -eor | Alternative form of -or |
| 3 | Latin | -ator | -ator, -er; second-person singular future passive... |
| 4 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |