Where does “kernramp” come from?
kernramp (Dutch) comes from Dutch ramp, from English ramp, from French rampe, from French ramper, from Middle French ramper, from Old French ramper, from Frankish rampōn, from Frankish rampa — to cut, cut off, sever.
kernramp (Dutch): nuclear disaster
Definitions
- nuclear disaster
Ancestry of “kernramp”, step by step
kernramp traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch ramp
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | ramp | disaster, catastrophe; an accident; a ramp |
| 2 | English | ramp | An inclined surface that connects two levels; an... |
| 3 | French | rampe | ramp |
| 4 | French | ramper | to crawl, worm (along); to creep |
| 5 | Middle French | ramper | to crawl |
| 6 | Old French | ramper | to climb; to ascend; to go up |
| 7 | Frankish | rampōn | — |
| 8 | Frankish | rampa | — |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | hrempaną | to bend, curve, make waves, wrinkle; to curve,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)kreb- | to turn; to touch; to turn, bend, shrink, rotate,... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)ker- | to cut off; to turn, bend |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | sek- | to cut, cut off, sever |