Where does “grasmaaier” come from?

grasmaaier (Dutch) comes from Dutch gras, from Middle Dutch gras, from Old Dutch gras, from Proto-West Germanic gras, from Proto-Germanic grasą, from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰreh₁- — to become green, grow; to grow; to green, to grow.

grasmaaier (Dutch): a lawnmower

Definitions

  1. a lawnmower

Ancestry of “grasmaaier”, step by step

grasmaaier traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Dutch gras

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dutchgrasgrass
2Middle Dutchgrasgrass
3Old Dutchgras—
4Proto-West Germanicgrasgrass
5Proto-Germanicgrasągrass
6Proto-Indo-Europeanǵʰreh₁-to become green, grow; to grow; to green, to grow

via Dutch maaier

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dutchmaaierreaper
2Dutch-erForms agent nouns from verbs; Forms nouns for a...
3Old Dutch-āri—
4Proto-Germanic-ārijaz-er
5Latin-āriuser
6Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)

Words derived from “grasmaaier”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰreh₁- →