Where does “Dodendraad” come from?
Dodendraad (Dutch) comes from Dutch dode, from Dutch dood, from Dutch doden, from Middle Dutch dôden, from Old Dutch dōden, from Proto-West Germanic daudijan, from Proto-Germanic daudijaną, from Proto-Germanic -janą — he, she.
Dodendraad (Dutch): the Wire of Death: the lethal electric fence that was placed along the border between Belgium and the Netherlands by the German occupiers during the First World War
Definitions
- the Wire of Death: the lethal electric fence that was placed along the border between Belgium and the Netherlands by the German occupiers during the First World War
Ancestry of “Dodendraad”, step by step
Dodendraad traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch dode
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | dode | A deceased person; A casualty, victim of a fatal... |
| 2 | Dutch | dood | dead; A lot; death |
| 3 | Dutch | doden | to kill; plural of dode |
| 4 | Middle Dutch | dôden | to kill |
| 5 | Old Dutch | dōden | — |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | daudijan | to kill |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | daudijaną | to make dead, kill |
| 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 |