Where does “double-pole technique” come from?
double-pole technique (English) comes from English technique, from French technique, from Latin technicus, from Ancient Greek τεχνικός, from Ancient Greek τέχνη, from Ancient Greek -λογία, from Ancient Greek λόγος, from Ancient Greek λέγω — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
double-pole technique (English): A particular skier's implementation of double poling
Definitions
- A particular skier's implementation of double poling
Ancestry of “double-pole technique”, step by step
double-pole technique traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English technique
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | technique | The practical aspects of a given art, occupation... |
| 2 | French | technique | technical; technique, technology |
| 3 | Latin | technicus | technical |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | τεχνικός | technical; artistic, skillful; of or pertaining... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | τέχνη | craft, skill, trade; art; cunning, wile |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | -λογία | Base for nouns denoting the study of something,... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | λόγος | That which is said: word, sentence, speech,... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | λέγω | I put in order, arrange, gather; I choose, count,... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |
via English double pole
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | double pole | To ski by planting both poles onto the ground and pushing back onto them, with both feet aligned side-by-side, moving both skies together; to use the double-pole technique |
| 2 | English | Pole | A person from Poland or of Polish descent |
| 3 | Middle English | pole | pole, stake, staff |
| 4 | Old French | poule | hen |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | pulla | nominative feminine singular of pullus;... |
| 6 | Latin | pullus | A young animal; darling; dark-colored; dusky |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | polHwós | pale, gray |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | pelH- | pale, gray |