Where does “Dezimalpunkt” come from?

Dezimalpunkt (German) comes from German Punkt, from Latin pūnctum, from Latin punctus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

Dezimalpunkt (German): decimal point

Definitions

  1. decimal point

Ancestry of “Dezimalpunkt”, step by step

Dezimalpunkt traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German Punkt

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanPunktdot; full stop, period; decimal point, point,...
2Latinpūnctumpoint
3Latinpunctuspricked, punctured, pierced, having been pricked;...
4Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
5Proto-Italic-tus
6Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

via German dezimal

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germandezimaldecimal
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tusEvery word from Latin -tusEvery word from Latin punctus