Where does “cauquemare” come from?

cauquemare (Old French) comes from Norman cauche, from Old French chauce, from Vulgar Latin calcea, from Latin calceus, from Latin calx, from Ancient Greek χάλιξ — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.

cauquemare (Old French): nightmare

Definitions

nightmare

Ancestry of “cauquemare”, step by step

cauquemare traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Norman cauche

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Norman	cauche	stocking
2	Old French	chauce	stocking
3	Vulgar Latin	calcea	garment covering foot and leg
4	Latin	calceus	shoe
5	Latin	calx	limestone; chalk; the finish line
6	Ancient Greek	χάλιξ	small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble

via Middle Dutch mâre

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Middle Dutch	mâre	famous, famed
2	Old Dutch	māri	famous
3	Proto-Germanic	mēriją	boundary
4	Proto-Indo-European	mēy-	soft, tender, dear

via Latin calcō

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Latin	calcō	to trample, tread on
2	Latin	-ō	suffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs
3	Proto-Indo-European	-ō	Derives nouns from roots

Words derived from “cauquemare”

Every word from Ancient Greek χάλιξ →Every word from Latin calx →Every word from Latin calceus →