Where does “Bildschirmtastatur” come from?
Bildschirmtastatur (German) comes from German Tastatur, from Italian tastiera, from Italian tasto, from Italian tastare, from Vulgar Latin tastare, from Latin taxāre, from Latin Taxus, from Ancient Greek εἶδος — to look at.
Bildschirmtastatur (German): virtual keyboard
Definitions
- virtual keyboard
Ancestry of “Bildschirmtastatur”, step by step
Bildschirmtastatur traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Tastatur
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Tastatur | keyboard |
| 2 | Italian | tastiera | keyboard; fingerboard |
| 3 | Italian | tasto | key, button; touch, feel; fret, fingerboard |
| 4 | Italian | tastare | to feel, grope, cop a feel; to probe |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | tastare | to touch, feel; present active infinitive of... |
| 6 | Latin | taxāre | — |
| 7 | Latin | Taxus | yew |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | εἶδος | That which is seen: form, image, shape;... |
| 9 | Spanish | -scopio | -scope |
| 10 | Latin | -scopium | — |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | σκοπέω | I look, look at, behold; I examine, inspect; 413... |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | σκοπός | watcher, lookout; protector, guardian; spy, scout |
| 13 | Ancient Greek | σκέπτομαι | I look at, examine; I examine, consider, think |
| 14 | Proto-Hellenic | sképťomai | to look at |
via German Bildschirm
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Bildschirm | screen; monitor; display |
| 2 | German | schirm | screen |
| 3 | Middle High German | schirm | — |
| 4 | Old High German | skerm | — |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | skirmi | fur, hide, pelt; covering, shelter, screen |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | skirmiz | fur, hide, pelt; covering, shelter, screen |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | sḱer- | to caw, crow |