Where does “porchacier” come from?
porchacier (Old French) comes 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, from Proto-Indo-European keh₂p- — to seize, grab; to seize; take up; lift; to take,...
porchacier (Old French): to buy; to follow; to pursue
Definitions
- to buy; to follow; to pursue
Ancestry of “porchacier”, step by step
porchacier traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Old French chacier
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | chacier | to hunt, to go hunting |
| 2 | Latin | captiāre | to hunt |
| 3 | Latin | captus | captured, having been captured, seized, having... |
| 4 | Latin | capiō | to take, to capture, to catch, to seize, to take captive, to storm |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | kapiō | take |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | kapjō | take, seize |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | kh₂pyéti | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | keh₂p- | to seize, grab; to seize; take up; lift; to take,... |
via Old French por
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | por | for |
| 2 | Late Latin | pōr | — |
| 3 | Latin | prō | for |
| 4 | Latin | ratus | considered, having been considered; established,... |
| 5 | Latin | rēōr | to reckon, calculate |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | rēōr | to reckon, to calculate; to think, to deem, to... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂reh₁- | to think, reason; to arrange |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂er- | to fit, to fix, to put together |