Where does “pocketrea” come from?
pocketrea (Swedish) comes from Swedish rea, from Swedish realisera, from French réaliser, from Latin reālis, from Latin rēs, from Latin vindicatio, from Latin vindicō, from Latin vindex — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
pocketrea (Swedish): a sale of paperback books
Definitions
- a sale of paperback books
Ancestry of “pocketrea”, step by step
pocketrea traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish rea
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | rea | a sale (sale of goods at reduced prices); short for realisation |
| 2 | Swedish | realisera | to realize; to make real; to organize a sale; to... |
| 3 | French | réaliser | to direct; to fulfill; to perform |
| 4 | Latin | reālis | real |
| 5 | Latin | rēs | thing, object, stuff |
| 6 | Latin | vindicatio | civil lawsuit; protection, defence; vindication;... |
| 7 | Latin | vindicō | to lay claim to as one's own (often with sibi) |
| 8 | Latin | vindex | claimant, vindicator |
| 9 | Latin | dīcō | to say, talk, speak, utter, mention |
| 10 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 11 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 12 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 13 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 14 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 15 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 16 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 17 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
via Swedish pocket
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | paperback; book with flexible binding | |
| 2 | Swedish | pocketbok | a paperback; book with flexible binding |
| 3 | English | pocketbook | A woman's purse; One's personal budget or... |
| 4 | English | Book | the Bible |
| 5 | German | būch | book collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge; long work fit for publication |
| 6 | Middle High German | buoch | — |
| 7 | Old High German | buoh | book |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | bōk | — |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | bakaną | to bake |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰeh₃g- | to bake, to roast, to fry |