Where does “شوفاج” come from?
شوفاج (North Levantine Arabic) comes from French chauffage, from French chauffer, from Middle French chauffer, from Old French chauffer, from Old French chaufer, from Vulgar Latin calefare, from Latin calefaciō, from Latin faciō.
شوفاج (North Levantine Arabic): heating
Definitions
- heating
Ancestry of “شوفاج”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | chauffage | heating |
| 2 | French | chauffer | to heat, to warm, to warm up; to tease, to entice... |
| 3 | Middle French | chauffer | — |
| 4 | Old French | chauffer | Alternative form of chaufer |
| 5 | Old French | chaufer | to heat; to heat up; to warm |
| 6 | Vulgar Latin | calefare | — |
| 7 | Latin | calefaciō | to warm or heat |
| 8 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 9 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 10 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 11 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |