Where does “pianostemmer” come from?
pianostemmer (Dutch) comes from Dutch piano, from French piano, from Italian piano, from Italian -ano, from Latin -ant, from Proto-Italic -āō, from Proto-Indo-European -eh₂yéti, from Proto-Indo-European -yéti — he, she.
pianostemmer (Dutch): piano tuner
Definitions
- piano tuner
Ancestry of “pianostemmer”, step by step
pianostemmer traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch piano
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | piano | piano |
| 2 | French | piano | piano |
| 3 | Italian | piano | plane; flat, level; plain |
| 4 | Italian | -ano | Used with a stem to form the third-person plural... |
| 5 | Latin | -ant | third-person plural present active indicative of... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 10 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via Dutch stemmer
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | stemmer | tuner: someone who tunes a musical instrument;... |
| 2 | Dutch | stemmen | to vote; to tune; to bring into a certain mood |
| 3 | Dutch | stem | voice, sound made by the mouth using airflow; the... |
| 4 | Middle Dutch | stemme | — |
| 5 | Old Dutch | stemma | voice |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | *stebnu | voice |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | stebnō | voice; sound |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | stomen- | mouth, muzzle |