Where does “yoghurt-knitter” come from?
yoghurt-knitter (English) comes from English knitter, from Middle English knytter, from Middle English knytten, from Old English cnyttan, from Proto-West Germanic *knuttijan, from Proto-Germanic knuttijaną, from Proto-Germanic -janą, from Proto-Indo-European -yéti — he, she.
yoghurt-knitter (English): A left-wing, environmentalist or hippie person
Definitions
- A left-wing, environmentalist or hippie person
Ancestry of “yoghurt-knitter”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | knitter | A person or a machine that knits |
| 2 | Middle English | knytter | An individual who causes uniting and mending; A... |
| 3 | Middle English | knytten | To connect or secure; to join something to... |
| 4 | Old English | cnyttan | to tie; bind; to knot; to knit |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | *knuttijan | — |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | knuttijaną | to bind into a knot; to tie with a knot |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | -janą | Derives denominatives from nouns and factitives... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 10 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |