English
chaise
Chaise comes from French chaise ‘chair, seat’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *sed- ‘to sit’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sed-‘to sit’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*sedreh₂reconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*hédrāreconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἕδρα‘seat’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEκαθέδρα‘seat’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcathedra‘seat’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400chaiere
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600chaire‘chair’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentchaise‘chair, seat’
- Englishearliest quotation 1814chaise
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sed-‘to sit’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*sedreh₂reconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*hédrāreconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἕδρα‘seat’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEκαθέδρα‘seat’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcathedra‘seat’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400chaiere
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600chaire‘chair’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentchaise‘chair, seat’
- Englishearliest quotation 1814chaise
Earliest quotation: 1814, Jane Austen, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton: “But why is it necessary, said Edmund, that Crawford’s…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *sed- ‘to sit’
president, set, size, sit, sitting, method, sell, seat, session, resident, settle, nest, siege, assess, possess, saddle, exodus, reside, niche, subsidy, residue, residual, nye, sedan, insidious, sediment, prasad, cathode, soot, sedentary, dissident, anode, beset, sedative, setter, obsess, presidio, sate, sedate, presidium, 94 more
through Ancient Greek ἕδρα ‘seat’
through Latin cathedra ‘seat’
through Old French chaiere
Today it means
noun An open, horse-drawn carriage for one or two people, usually with one horse and two wheels.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *sed- / chaise