Where does “coçar” come from?
coçar (Portuguese) comes from French cocarde, from Old French cocquart, from French coq, from Latin coquus, from Latin coquō, from English Cook, from German kochen, from Middle High German kochen.
coçar (Portuguese): to scratch; to itch
Definitions
- to scratch; to itch
Ancestry of “coçar”, step by step
coçar traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French cocarde
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | cocarde | rosette; cockade |
| 2 | Old French | cocquart | vain |
| 3 | French | coq | male chicken, rooster, cockerel, cock; a cook |
| 4 | Latin | coquus | A cook; person who makes food |
| 5 | Latin | coquō | to cook; prepare food |
| 6 | English | Cook | A placename |
| 7 | German | kochen | to cook, to prepare food; to boil; to be stirred... |
| 8 | Middle High German | kochen | to cook |
| 9 | Old High German | kohhōn | to cook |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | kukōną | to cook |
| 11 | Latin | coquere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | kʷekʷō | to cook |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | pékʷeti | to be cooking; to ripen |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | pekʷ- | to cook; to ripen |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃-ép-kʷ- | — |