Where does “checa” come from?
checa (Spanish) comes from Spanish checo, from Spanish coche, from Middle French coche, from German Kutsche, from French couché, from French coucher, from Middle French coucher, from Old French couchier — whale, sea monster; abyss.
checa (Spanish): feminine singular of checo; female equivalent of...
Definitions
- feminine singular of checo; female equivalent of...
Ancestry of “checa”, step by step
checa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Spanish checo
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | checo | Czech; Czechoslovakian; a Czech |
| 2 | Spanish | coche | car; carriage, coach |
| 3 | Middle French | coche | — |
| 4 | German | Kutsche | carriage; coach; A large, old automobile in poor... |
| 5 | French | couché | past participle of coucher; in bed |
| 6 | French | coucher | to lay, to lay down; to put to bed, to put up; to... |
| 7 | Middle French | coucher | to put to bed; setting |
| 8 | Old French | couchier | to go to bed; to have sex; bedtime |
| 9 | Latin | collocō | to place, put, set in order, assign, arrange |
| 10 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 11 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 12 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 16 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 17 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 18 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 19 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |
via Russian ЧК
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian | ЧК | Cheka forerunner of the KGB |
| 2 | Russian | Всеросси́йская чрезвыча́йная коми́ссия | All-Russian Extraordinary Commission |