Where does “קאָקס” come from?
קאָקס (Yiddish) comes from German Koks, from English cokes, from English coke, from English cocaine, from English -ine, from French -ine, from French -é, from Middle French -é.
קאָקס (Yiddish): coke solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven
Definitions
- coke solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven
Ancestry of “קאָקס”, step by step
קאָקס traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Koks
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Koks | coke; cocaine |
| 2 | English | cokes | plural of coke; A simpleton; a dupe; Third-person... |
| 3 | English | coke | Solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven;... |
| 4 | English | cocaine | An addictive drug derived from coca or prepared... |
| 5 | English | -ine | Of or pertaining to; Used to form demonyms;... |
| 6 | French | -ine | feminine singular of -in; female equivalent of... |
| 7 | French | -é | past participle root verb suffix of regular -er... |
| 8 | Middle French | -é | past participle root verb suffix of regular; -ed, -en, -n |
| 9 | Old French | -é | used to form past participles of regular -er... |
| 10 | Latin | -a | suffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -ā | Forms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂ | — |