Where does “Akkumulator” come from?
Akkumulator (German) comes from French accumulateur, from French -eur, from Middle French -eur, from Old French -eor, from Latin -ator, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr.
Akkumulator (German): accumulator
Definitions
- accumulator
Ancestry of “Akkumulator”, step by step
Akkumulator traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French accumulateur
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | accumulateur | accumulator, battery |
| 2 | French | -eur | Used to form agent nouns from verbs; API f; -ness |
| 3 | Middle French | -eur | Used to form agent nouns from verbs |
| 4 | Old French | -eor | Alternative form of -or |
| 5 | Latin | -ator | -ator, -er; second-person singular future passive... |
| 6 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
via German akkumulieren
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | akkumulieren | To accumulate |
| 2 | Latin | accumulāre | — |
| 3 | Latin | cumulāre | — |