Where does “vierpuntsdruktoets” come from?
vierpuntsdruktoets (Dutch) comes from Dutch druktoets, from Dutch toets, from French touché, from French toucher, from German -ieren, from French -er, from English -er, from Middle English -er — he, she.
vierpuntsdruktoets (Dutch): D-pad
Definitions
- D-pad
Ancestry of “vierpuntsdruktoets”, step by step
vierpuntsdruktoets traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch druktoets
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | druktoets | push button a button switch activated by pushing or pressing |
| 2 | Dutch | toets | button, key; fingerboard; test, examination |
| 3 | French | touché | past participle of toucher |
| 4 | French | toucher | The act of touching; A way of touching; The sense... |
| 5 | German | -ieren | Verb suffix: it and its inflected forms are found... |
| 6 | French | -er | Forms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs |
| 7 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 8 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 9 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 10 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 15 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via Dutch punt
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | punt | point; The terminal point of something; dot |
| 2 | French | point | point; full stop, period; stitch pattern |
| 3 | Middle French | poinct | point; not |
| 4 | Old French | point | a sting; a prick; moment; time; dot |
| 5 | Latin | pūnctum | point |
| 6 | Latin | punctus | pricked, punctured, pierced, having been pricked;... |
| 7 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |