Where does “Emissionsausgleich” come from?
Emissionsausgleich (German) comes from German Emission, from French émission, from Latin ēmissiō, from Latin ēmittō, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō, from Latin commūnis, from Old Latin com(m)oinis — resin.
Emissionsausgleich (German): carbon offset
Definitions
- carbon offset
Ancestry of “Emissionsausgleich”, step by step
Emissionsausgleich traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Emission
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Emission | emission; issue, launch |
| 2 | French | émission | emission; programme, show |
| 3 | Latin | ēmissiō | a sending out |
| 4 | Latin | ēmittō | to send forth, emit, discharge |
| 5 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 6 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 7 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 8 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 13 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 14 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 15 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 16 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 17 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
via German Ausgleich
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Ausgleich | compensation; hotchpot; equalizer, tie |
| 2 | German | ausgleichen | to balance; to compensate |
| 3 | German | aus- | out- |
| 4 | German | Aus | an out; the end of play for an individual or a... |
| 5 | English | out | Away from the inside, centre or other point of... |
| 6 | Middle English | oute | out |
| 7 | Old English | ūt | out |
| 8 | Proto-West Germanic | *ūt | out, outward |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | ūt | out, outward |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | úd | out, outward |