Where does “Fehlstellung” come from?

Fehlstellung (German) comes from German Stellung, from German Stellen, from Middle High German stellen, from Old High German stellen, from Proto-West Germanic stalljan, from Proto-Indo-European stel- — to put, to place; to locate.

Fehlstellung (German): misalignment, malposition, malalignment

Definitions

  1. misalignment, malposition, malalignment

Ancestry of “Fehlstellung”, step by step

Fehlstellung traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German Stellung

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanStellungposition
2GermanStellengerund of stellen; plural of Stelle
3Middle High Germanstellento put, to place
4Old High Germanstellen
5Proto-West Germanicstalljanto put, to place
6Proto-Indo-Europeanstel-to put, to place; to locate

via German fehlen

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanfehlento lack; to be absent from, to be missing from,...
2Middle High Germanvælen
3Old Frenchfailliralternative infinitive of falir; to fail, err
4Latinfallēre
Every word from Proto-Indo-European stel-
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