Where does “Amateurmusiker” come from?

Amateurmusiker (German) comes from German Amateur, from French amateur, from Latin amātor, from Latin amō, from Latin Deus, from Latin dẹ̄vos, from Old Latin deivos, from Proto-Italic deiwos — to be bright; sky, heaven.

Amateurmusiker (German): amateur musician male or of unspecified sex

Definitions

  1. amateur musician male or of unspecified sex

Ancestry of “Amateurmusiker”, step by step

Amateurmusiker traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German Amateur

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanAmateuramateur
2Frenchamateuramateur; a lover of something
3Latinamātora (male) friend
4Latinamōto love
5LatinDeusGod
6Latindẹ̄vos
7Old Latindeivosgod, deity
8Proto-Italicdeiwosgod, deity
9Proto-Indo-Europeandeywósgod
10Proto-Indo-Europeandyew-to be bright; sky, heaven

via German Musiker

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanMusikermusician
2Germanmusikmusic
3Middle High Germanmūsic
4Old High Germanmusika
5Latinmūsica
6Ancient Greekμουσικήnominative feminine singular of μουσικός; any of...
7Ancient GreekμοῦσαAlternative letter-case form of Μοῦσᾰ; music,...

Words derived from “Amateurmusiker

Every word from Proto-Indo-European dyew-