Where does “Ewigkeitskosten” come from?
Ewigkeitskosten (German) comes from German Kosten, from Italian costo, from Polish koszt, from Hungarian kösz, from Hungarian köszönöm, from Hungarian -öm, from Hungarian -ö-, from Hungarian -d — 3rd person plural verb ending.
Ewigkeitskosten (German): eternal costs, costs that will have to be paid indefinitely, in particular relating to the drainage of land sunk by coal mining or to the management of nuclear waste and other hazardous materials
Definitions
- eternal costs, costs that will have to be paid indefinitely, in particular relating to the drainage of land sunk by coal mining or to the management of nuclear waste and other hazardous materials
Ancestry of “Ewigkeitskosten”, step by step
Ewigkeitskosten traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Kosten
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Kosten | costs |
| 2 | Italian | costo | cost; expense; usury |
| 3 | Polish | koszt | cost |
| 4 | Hungarian | kösz | thanks |
| 5 | Hungarian | köszönöm | first-person singular indicative present definite... |
| 6 | Hungarian | -öm | Used to form the first-person singular present... |
| 7 | Hungarian | -ö- | linking vowel |
| 8 | Hungarian | -d | your; Used in the second-person singular definite... |
| 9 | Middle Welsh | -nt | 3rd person plural verb ending |
via German Ewigkeit
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Ewigkeit | eternity |
| 2 | German | ewig | eternal, everlasting; eternally, for ever; always |
| 3 | Middle High German | ēwic | eternal |
| 4 | Old High German | ēwig | eternal |
| 5 | Old High German | ēwa | eternity; law, marriage |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | aiw | long time, age, eternity; law |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | aiwaz | long time, age, eternity |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂eyu- | vitality; eternal; vital force, life, long life,... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂ey- | vital force, life, age, eternity; day, morning |