Where does “Feigenbaum” come from?
Feigenbaum comes from German Baum, from Middle High German boum, from Old High German boum, from Proto-Germanic baumaz, from Proto-Indo-European bʰew-, ultimately related to Latin ficus.
Ancestry of “Feigenbaum”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | German | Feigenbaum | fig |
| 2 | German | feige | cowardly, yellow; cowardly |
| 3 | Middle High German | vīge | — |
| 4 | Old High German | fīga | — |
| 5 | Old French | figue | fig |
| 6 | Occitan | figa | fig |
| 7 | Old Occitan | figa | fig |
| 8 | Vulgar Latin | fica | fig; fig, fig-tree |
| 9 | Latin | ficus | fig tree; fig; hemorrhoids |
| 10 | Phoenician | ?? | Ripe fig |