Where does “Fehlersuche” come from?

Fehlersuche (German) comes from German Fehler, from German fehlen, from Middle High German vælen, from Old French faillir, from Latin fallēre.

Fehlersuche (German): process of finding errors

Definitions

  1. process of finding errors

Ancestry of “Fehlersuche”, step by step

Fehlersuche traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German Fehler

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanFehlerfault, error, mistake
2Germanfehlento lack; to be absent from, to be missing from,...
3Middle High Germanvælen—
4Old Frenchfailliralternative infinitive of falir; to fail, err
5Latinfallēre—

via German Suche

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanSuchesearch
2Middle High Germansuoche—
3Old High Germansuohha—
Every word from Latin fallēre →