Where does “Tesla” come from?

Tesla comes from Serbo-Croatian Nikola Tesla, the surname of the Serbian-American inventor and engineer.

Tesla (English): A car manufactured by Tesla, Inc., a battery electric vehicle (BEV) automaker founded in 2003

Definitions

  1. A car manufactured by Tesla, Inc., a battery electric vehicle (BEV) automaker founded in 2003

Ancestry of “Tesla”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Serbo-CroatianTeslaadze
2Proto-Slavictesľaadze
3Proto-Indo-Europeantetḱ-dʰlo-—
4Proto-Indo-Europeantetḱ-to create, produce; to cut, hew
5Proto-Indo-Europeanteḱ-to sire, beget

Words derived from “Tesla”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European teḱ- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European tetḱ- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European tetḱ-dʰlo- →