Etymology

chock

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Today it means: Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling. Full definition →

Middle English *chokke ← Anglo-Norman choque ← Old French çouche
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chock · noun, verb, adverb1

  1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*stukkaz“stick, stock, piece of wood”
  2. Gaulish · derived from*tsukka
  3. Old French · derived fromçouche
  4. Anglo-Norman · derived fromchoque
  5. Middle English · inherited from*chokke
  6. English todaychock

From Middle English *chokke (possibly attested in Middle English chokkefull), from Anglo-Norman choque (compare modern Norman chouque), from an Old Northern French variant of Old French çouche, çouche (“block, log”), of Celtic origin, from Gaulish *tsukka (compare Breton soc’h (“thick”), Old Irish tócht (“part, piece”), itself a metathetic borrowing of Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“stick, stock, piece of wood”). Doublet of stock.

chock · noun, verb2

  1. French · derived fromchoquer
  2. English todaychock

French choquer. Compare shock (transitive verb).

chock · interjection, verb3

Onomatopoeic.

Chock · proper noun4

* As an English surname, variant of Shock. * As a German surname, Americanized from Zschoche, Zschocke, from the placename Zsochochau in Saxony or Tschocke in Silesia, of Slavic origin. * As a Slovene surname, Americanized from Čok, from obsolete čok (“tree stump”). * As a Chinese surname, Romanizaed from 卓 (zhuó), see Zhuo.

Words from the same roots

Proto-Germanic*stukkaz all →

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