Where does “Abkürzungszeichen” come from?
Abkürzungszeichen (German) comes from German Abkürzung, from German abkürzen, from German kürzen, from German kurz, from Middle High German kurz, from Old High German kurz, from Proto-West Germanic kurt, from Latin curtus — dung, manure, filth; manure, dung, filth.
Abkürzungszeichen (German): abbreviation sign
Definitions
- abbreviation sign
Ancestry of “Abkürzungszeichen”, step by step
Abkürzungszeichen traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Abkürzung
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Abkürzung | abbreviation; shortcut |
| 2 | German | abkürzen | to abbreviate |
| 3 | German | kürzen | to shorten; to abbreviate; to abridge |
| 4 | German | kurz | short, brief; concise; briefly, in short |
| 5 | Middle High German | kurz | — |
| 6 | Old High German | kurz | short |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | kurt | short |
| 8 | Latin | curtus | shortened, short; mutilated, broken, incomplete |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)ḱer- | dung, manure, filth; manure, dung, filth |