Where does “Aufmerksamkeitsdefizitsyndrom” come from?
Aufmerksamkeitsdefizitsyndrom (German) comes from German Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit, from German Aufmerksamkeit, from German aufmerksam, from German aufmerken, from German merken, from Middle High German merken, from Old High German merchen, from Proto-West Germanic *markijan — he, she.
Aufmerksamkeitsdefizitsyndrom (German): attention deficit disorder
Definitions
- attention deficit disorder
Ancestry of “Aufmerksamkeitsdefizitsyndrom”, step by step
Aufmerksamkeitsdefizitsyndrom traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit | attention deficit |
| 2 | German | Aufmerksamkeit | attention, care |
| 3 | German | aufmerksam | attentive, alert, observant; kind, nice |
| 4 | German | aufmerken | to observe |
| 5 | German | merken | to notice; to memorize, remember; to realize |
| 6 | Middle High German | merken | — |
| 7 | Old High German | merchen | — |
| 8 | Proto-West Germanic | *markijan | to mark |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | markijaną | to mark; to perceive, notice |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | -janą | Derives denominatives from nouns and factitives... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 13 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via German Syndrom
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Syndrom | syndrome |
| 2 | English | syndrome | A recognizable pattern of signs, symptoms and/or... |
| 3 | New Latin | syndrome | — |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | συνδρομή | a concourse of people |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | σύνδρομος | running together |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | δρόμος | race, running; racetrack; course, path |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | -ός | Forms agentive or patientive adjectives and nouns from the o-grade of a verbal root |
| 8 | Proto-Hellenic | *-os | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -ós | Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting... |