Where does “List” come from?
List (English) comes from French liste, from German līste, from Italian lista, from Old High German līsta, from Proto-Germanic līstōn.
Ancestry of “List”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | liste | list |
| 2 | German | līste | — |
| 3 | Italian | lista | list, pile; strip, stripe; inflection of... |
| 4 | Old High German | līsta | — |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | līstōn | — |