Where does “ontelbaar” come from?
ontelbaar (Dutch) comes from Dutch telbaar, from Dutch tellen, from Middle Dutch tellen, from Old Dutch tellen, from Proto-West Germanic talljan, from Proto-Germanic taljaną, from Proto-Germanic talą, from Proto-Indo-European dol- — to aim, calculate, adjust, count; to reckon,...
ontelbaar (Dutch): uncountable, which cannot be counted, expressed...
Definitions
- uncountable, which cannot be counted, expressed...
Ancestry of “ontelbaar”, step by step
ontelbaar traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch telbaar
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | telbaar | countable, which can be counted, expressed... |
| 2 | Dutch | tellen | to count, to enumerate; to determine the number... |
| 3 | Middle Dutch | tellen | to count, to calculate; to count as, to consider... |
| 4 | Old Dutch | tellen | to tell, to say; to count |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | talljan | to count, to enumerate; to recount, to tell |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | taljaną | to enumerate, count; to account, recount, tell |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | talą | speech; number |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | dol- | reckoning, calculation, fraud; calculation, fraud |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | del- | to aim, calculate, adjust, count; to reckon,... |
via Dutch on
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | on | rarely used as shorthand for oneven (odd), the prefix on- means not (corresponds to English un-) |