Where does “Buntschwanzpapagei” come from?
Buntschwanzpapagei (German) comes from German Papagei, from Middle High German papegei, from Old French papegai, from Old Spanish papagayo, from Greek παπαγάλος, from Italian pappagallo, from Byzantine Greek παπαγᾶς, from Arabic بَبَغَاء.
Buntschwanzpapagei (German): any bird of the neotropical parrot genus Touit
Definitions
- any bird of the neotropical parrot genus Touit
Ancestry of “Buntschwanzpapagei”, step by step
Buntschwanzpapagei traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via German Papagei
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Papagei | parrot |
| 2 | Middle High German | papegei | — |
| 3 | Old French | papegai | parrot |
| 4 | Old Spanish | papagayo | — |
| 5 | Greek | παπαγάλος | parrot; a person who repeats uncritically what... |
| 6 | Italian | pappagallo | parrot; wolf; a person repeating others' words... |
| 7 | Byzantine Greek | παπαγᾶς | — |
| 8 | Arabic | بَبَغَاء | — |
via German bunt
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | bunt | mixed, varied, heterogeneous; multi-colored;... |
| 2 | Middle High German | bunt | — |
| 3 | Latin | punctus | pricked, punctured, pierced, having been pricked;... |
| 4 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |