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Where does “Dunkle Materie” come from?

Dunkle Materie (German) comes from German Dunkle, from German Dünkel, from Middle High German tunkel, from Old High German tunkalī, from Old High German -ī, from Proto-West Germanic -ī, from Proto-Germanic -į̄, from Proto-Indo-European -íh₂ — Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...

Dunkle Materie (German): dark matter

Definitions

  1. dark matter

Ancestry of “Dunkle Materie”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanDunkle{{l|en|dark}}
2GermanDünkelconceit, smugness, arrogance
3Middle High Germantunkel—
4Old High Germantunkalī—
5Old High German-ī-ness
6Proto-West Germanic-ī-ness, -th
7Proto-Germanic-į̄-th
8Proto-Indo-European-íh₂—
9Proto-Indo-European-h₂Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...
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