cahoter

== French == === Etymology === Uncertain. The Trésor de la langue française suggests a derivation from Middle Dutch hotten (“to shake”) (see hocher). Other sources suggest a derivation from Latin quatiō, from Frankish *hottôn (see German hotzen), or that the word is onomatopoeic. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ka.ɔ.te/ === Verb === cahoter (transitive) to bump, jolt (intransitive) to jolt along, bounce along ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Related terms ==== cahot cahoteux === Further reading === “cahoter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012