Where does “Brachfläche” come from?
Brachfläche (German) comes from German brach, from German brachliegen, from German liegen, from Middle High German ligen, from Old High German ligen, from Old High German liggen, from Proto-West Germanic liggjan, from Proto-Germanic ligjaną — to lie.
Brachfläche (German): fallow
Definitions
- fallow
Ancestry of “Brachfläche”, step by step
Brachfläche traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German brach
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | brach | fallow; first/third-person singular preterite of... |
| 2 | German | brachliegen | to be fallow, empty, unused |
| 3 | German | liegen | to lie; to be, to lie somewhere; to be located,... |
| 4 | Middle High German | ligen | to lie, to be in a horizontal position |
| 5 | Old High German | ligen | — |
| 6 | Old High German | liggen | — |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | liggjan | to lie, to rest |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | ligjaną | to lie, to rest |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | legʰ- | to lie |