Where does “Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch” come from?
Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (German) comes from German bürgerlich, from German Bürger, from English Burger, from English Hamburger, from English -er, from Middle English -er, from Old French -er, from Latin -āre — he, she.
Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (German): civil code
Definitions
- civil code
Ancestry of “Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch”, step by step
Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German bürgerlich
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | bürgerlich | civic, civil; bourgeois, middle-class; untitled |
| 2 | German | Bürger | citizen, inhabitant, resident; legally recognized... |
| 3 | English | Burger | Alternative spelling of Burgher; A white wine... |
| 4 | English | Hamburger | A person from Hamburg |
| 5 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 6 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 7 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 8 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 13 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via German Gesetzbuch
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Gesetzbuch | code |
| 2 | German | Gesetz | law, act, bill, statute |
| 3 | Middle High German | gesetze | — |
| 4 | Old High German | gisezzida | fixing, determination, assessment; establishment,... |
| 5 | Old High German | sezzen | to make sit, set, put |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | *sattjan | to set, place |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | satjaną | to set, to place down |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | sodéyeti | to set, to seat, to cause to sit |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -éyeti | Forms causative imperfective verbs from roots;... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -yeti | Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots |