Where does “șalupist” come from?
șalupist (Romanian) comes from Romanian șalupă, from French chaloupé, from Middle French chaloppe, from Old French eschalope, from Old French eschale, from Latin scāla, from Latin scandere, from Latin scandō — to jump up, ascend.
șalupist (Romanian): boatman
Definitions
- boatman
Ancestry of “șalupist”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | șalupă | boat |
| 2 | French | chaloupé | swinging, swaying; past participle of chalouper |
| 3 | Middle French | chaloppe | nutshell, seed husk; a sort of flat-bottomed boat |
| 4 | Old French | eschalope | shell; pod, shell, nutshell |
| 5 | Old French | eschale | shell |
| 6 | Latin | scāla | ladder |
| 7 | Latin | scandere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 8 | Latin | scandō | to climb, ascend, mount |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | sḱend- | to jump up, ascend |