Where does “parachoques” come from?
parachoques (Spanish) comes from Spanish choque, from English shock, from French choquer, from German schockieren, from Spanish chocar, from Portuguese chocar, from Russian шоки́ровать, from Russian -и́ровать — he, she.
parachoques (Spanish): bumper; fender; breasts, knockers, bumpers
Definitions
- bumper; fender; breasts, knockers, bumpers
Ancestry of “parachoques”, step by step
parachoques traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Spanish choque
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | choque | collision, accident |
| 2 | English | shock | A sudden, heavy impact; A discontinuity arising... |
| 3 | French | choquer | to hit, to collide; to shock |
| 4 | German | schockieren | to shock |
| 5 | Spanish | chocar | to crash; to bump into, to collide with; to... |
| 6 | Portuguese | chocar | to brood; to hatch; to linger |
| 7 | Russian | шоки́ровать | to horrify, to scandalize, to shock |
| 8 | Russian | -и́ровать | a productive verbal suffix, also used to create new verbs, especially from loanwords |
| 9 | German | -ieren | Verb suffix: it and its inflected forms are found... |
| 10 | French | -er | Forms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs |
| 11 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 12 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 13 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 14 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 15 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 19 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via Spanish parar
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | parar | to stop, halt; to put up, stand up; to lift,... |
| 2 | Latin | parāre | — |
| 3 | Latin | parō | to arrange, order, contrive, design |
| 4 | Latin | pectus | chest, breast; heart, breast, as the seat of... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | pektos | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | peg- | breast |
| 7 | English | polyethylene glycol | Any of a series of water-soluble polymers, of... |