Where does “Buntstiftkasten” come from?
Buntstiftkasten (German) comes from German Buntstift, from German bunt, from Middle High German bunt, from Latin punctus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.
Buntstiftkasten (German): color pencil box
Definitions
- color pencil box
Ancestry of “Buntstiftkasten”, step by step
Buntstiftkasten traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Buntstift
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Buntstift | colored pencil |
| 2 | German | bunt | mixed, varied, heterogeneous; multi-colored;... |
| 3 | Middle High German | bunt | — |
| 4 | Latin | punctus | pricked, punctured, pierced, having been pricked;... |
| 5 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |