Where does “Dornenkrone” come from?
Dornenkrone (German) comes from German krōne, from Middle High German krōne, from Old High German corōna, from Latin corōna, from Spanish -illa, from Old Spanish -iella, from Latin -ella, from Latin -ellus — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
Dornenkrone (German): crown of thorns
Definitions
- crown of thorns
Ancestry of “Dornenkrone”, step by step
Dornenkrone traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German krōne
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | krōne | crown |
| 2 | Middle High German | krōne | — |
| 3 | Old High German | corōna | — |
| 4 | Latin | corōna | chaplet, laurel, or wreath; presented to athletes, the gods, or the dead |
| 5 | Spanish | -illa | Added to feminine nouns to denote a diminutive... |
| 6 | Old Spanish | -iella | A diminutive suffix |
| 7 | Latin | -ella | inflection of -ellus: ## nominative/vocative... |
| 8 | Latin | -ellus | Alternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine... |
| 9 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |