Where does “systempunkt” come from?
systempunkt (English) comes from English Schwerpunkt, from German Schwerpunkt, from German schwer, from English -er, from Middle English -er, from Old French -er, from Latin -āre, from Proto-Italic -āō — he, she.
systempunkt (English): The point in a system (either an infrastructure or a market), where a swarm of disruptions and attacks will cascade and collapse the system (resulting in e.g. financial loss, supply shortages, or destabilization)
Definitions
- The point in a system (either an infrastructure or a market), where a swarm of disruptions and attacks will cascade and collapse the system (resulting in e.g. financial loss, supply shortages, or destabilization)
Ancestry of “systempunkt”, step by step
systempunkt traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Schwerpunkt
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Schwerpunkt | Alternative letter-case form of schwerpunkt |
| 2 | German | Schwerpunkt | center of mass; center of gravity; main point |
| 3 | German | schwer | heavy, weighty; difficult, hard; serious |
| 4 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 5 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 6 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 7 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 12 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via English system
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | system | A collection of organized things; a whole... |
| 2 | Late Latin | systema | harmony; musical scale; set of celestial objects;... |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | σύστημα | a whole made of several parts or members, system;... |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | -μᾰ | "suffix forming a noun denoting the result of an... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -mn̥ | Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs |