Where does “dierengedicht” come from?
dierengedicht (Dutch) comes from Dutch gedicht, from Dutch dichten, from Dutch dicht, from Middle Dutch dicht, from Old Dutch thīht, from Proto-West Germanic *þį̄ht(ī), from Proto-Germanic þinhtaz, from Proto-Indo-European tenkt- — to stretch, to extend.
dierengedicht (Dutch): poem about anthropomorphised animals
Definitions
- poem about anthropomorphised animals
Ancestry of “dierengedicht”, step by step
dierengedicht traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch gedicht
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | gedicht | poem |
| 2 | Dutch | dichten | to close; to stop up; to compose a poem |
| 3 | Dutch | dicht | thick, tight, dense; close; closed, shut |
| 4 | Middle Dutch | dicht | — |
| 5 | Old Dutch | thīht | — |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | *þį̄ht(ī) | tight |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | þinhtaz | tight |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | tenkt- | dense, thick, tight |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ten- | to stretch, to extend |
via Dutch dier
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | dier | animal, any member of the kingdom Animalia; her,... |
| 2 | Middle Dutch | dier | animal; inflection of die: ## feminine... |
| 3 | Old Dutch | dier | animal |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | deuʀ | animal, beast |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | deuzą | animal, beast |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰewsóm | living thing |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰéws | breath |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰwes- | to breathe; breath; spirit, soul > creature |