chauvinist
SHOH-vuh-nist · noun
English
Origin
The word traces back to chauvinism, formed from a personal name. It is a piecewise doublet of "Calvinist," meaning both words descend from different forms of the same underlying name.
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Related words
It's a doublet of "Calvinist" — the two words come from different forms of the same original name, making them unexpected linguistic siblings.