Where does “cultuurstrijder” come from?
cultuurstrijder (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.
cultuurstrijder (Dutch): a culture warrior; in the nineteenth century exclusively of anti-Catholics in the German Culture War
Definitions
- a culture warrior; in the nineteenth century exclusively of anti-Catholics in the German Culture War
Ancestry of “cultuurstrijder”, step by step
cultuurstrijder traces back through two 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 Dutch strijder
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | strijder | fighter |
| 2 | Dutch | strijden | to fight |
| 3 | Middle Dutch | striden | to fight, to battle; to counter, to resist |
| 4 | Old Dutch | strīdan | to fight, to battle |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | *strīdan | to stand upright |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | strīdaną | to stand upright; to step up to; to endeavour;... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | streydʰh₁- | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰeh₁- | to do, put, place |