Where does “tranetrekker” come from?
tranetrekker (Afrikaans) comes from Afrikaans trek, from Dutch trek, from Middle Dutch trec, from Middle Dutch trecken, from Old Dutch trecken, from Proto-West Germanic *trakkjan, from Proto-Germanic trakjaną, from Proto-Germanic -janą — he, she.
tranetrekker (Afrikaans): A tearjerker
Definitions
- A tearjerker
Ancestry of “tranetrekker”, step by step
tranetrekker traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Afrikaans trek
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Afrikaans | trek | to haul; to move; to pull |
| 2 | Dutch | trek | appetite; journey, migration; animal migration |
| 3 | Middle Dutch | trec | — |
| 4 | Middle Dutch | trecken | to pull or draw to oneself; to go to another... |
| 5 | Old Dutch | trecken | — |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | *trakkjan | to drag |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | trakjaną | to drag |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | -janą | Derives denominatives from nouns and factitives... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 11 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via English tearjerker
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | tearjerker | An emotionally charged film, novel, song, opera,... |
| 2 | English | jerker | A North American river chub, a hornyhead chub;... |
| 3 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 4 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 5 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 6 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂ | — |