Where does “defilter” come from?
defilter (English) comes from English de, from Chinese 德, from Mandarin 德意志, from German Deutsch, from Old High German diutsch, from Old High German diutisc, from Proto-West Germanic þiudisk, from Proto-Germanic þiudiskaz — to swell; to crowd; to be strong.
defilter (English): To process (filtered data) so as to reconstruct the original data
Definitions
- To process (filtered data) so as to reconstruct the original data
Ancestry of “defilter”, step by step
defilter traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English de
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | de | To do; Pronunciation spelling of the; A... |
| 2 | Chinese | 德 | — |
| 3 | Mandarin | 德意志 | — |
| 4 | German | Deutsch | German |
| 5 | Old High German | diutsch | — |
| 6 | Old High German | diutisc | Alternative form of diutisk; popular, vernacular;... |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | þiudisk | of the people, popular, vernacular |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | þiudiskaz | of the people, popular; of the tribe |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | þeudō | people, tribe |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | tewtéh₂ | people, tribe |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | tewh₂- | to swell; to crowd; to be strong |
via English filter
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | filter | A device which separates a suspended, dissolved,... |
| 2 | German | filter | inflection of filtern: ## first-person singular... |
| 3 | French | filtré | past participle of filtrer; filtered |
| 4 | Medieval Latin | filtrum | felt |
| 5 | Frankish | filtir | — |
| 6 | Frankish | *felt | — |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | *felt | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | peld- | something beaten or compressed; felt |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | pelh₂- | to approach |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | pel- | to cover, to wrap; skin, hide, cloth; to fold |