Where does “cultuurstrijd” come from?
cultuurstrijd (Dutch) comes from Dutch cultuur, from Middle French culture, from Latin cultūra, from Latin cultus, from Latin colere, from Latin colo, from Latin quelo, from Proto-Italic kʷelō — to turn.
cultuurstrijd (Dutch): a culture war; in particular used of the Culture War in the German Empire in the nineteenth century
Definitions
- a culture war; in particular used of the Culture War in the German Empire in the nineteenth century
Ancestry of “cultuurstrijd”, step by step
cultuurstrijd traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch cultuur
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | cultuur | culture |
| 2 | Middle French | culture | cultivation; culture |
| 3 | Latin | cultūra | care, cultivation; agriculture, tillage, husbandry |
| 4 | Latin | cultus | tilled, cultivated, having been cultivated;... |
| 5 | Latin | colere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 6 | Latin | colo | I till, cultivate the land; I inhabit; I protect,... |
| 7 | Latin | quelo | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kʷelō | to inhabit |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷéleti | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷel- | to turn |
via German Kulturkampf
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Kulturkampf | kulturkampf conflict between secular and religious authorities in late 19th c. Germany and Switzerland |
| 2 | German | kampf | struggle, battle, campaign, fight |
| 3 | Middle High German | kampf | — |
| 4 | Old High German | kampf | — |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | kamp | field; battle |
| 6 | Latin | campus | Open flat level ground: a plain, a natural field;... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | kh₂emp- | to bend; crooked; to bend, curve |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | kh₂em- | to bend, to curve |