Where does “Fehlerquelle” come from?
Fehlerquelle (German) comes from German Fehler, from German fehlen, from Middle High German vælen, from Old French faillir, from Latin fallēre.
Fehlerquelle (German): source of error, error source
Definitions
- source of error, error source
Ancestry of “Fehlerquelle”, step by step
Fehlerquelle traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Fehler
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | German | Fehler | fault, error, mistake |
| 2 | German | fehlen | to lack; to be absent from, to be missing from,... |
| 3 | Middle High German | vælen | — |
| 4 | Old French | faillir | alternative infinitive of falir; to fail, err |
| 5 | Latin | fallēre | — |
via German quelle
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | German | quelle | inflection of quellen:
## first-person singular... |
| 2 | Middle High German | quelle | — |
| 3 | Old High German | quella | — |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | *kwalljā | wellspring; spring |