Where does “Fernsehzuschauer” come from?
Fernsehzuschauer (German) comes from German Fernsehen, from English televisión, from French télévision, from German Television, from Italian televisione, from Spanish televisión, from Spanish tele-, from Ancient Greek τῆλε — to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,...
Fernsehzuschauer (German): television viewer
Definitions
- television viewer
Ancestry of “Fernsehzuschauer”, step by step
Fernsehzuschauer traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Fernsehen
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Fernsehen | television |
| 2 | English | televisión | An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound |
| 3 | French | télévision | television |
| 4 | German | Television | — |
| 5 | Italian | televisione | television |
| 6 | Spanish | televisión | television |
| 7 | Spanish | tele- | tele |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | τῆλε | far off, afar, far away |
| 9 | Latin | commūnicāre | — |
| 10 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 11 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 16 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 17 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 18 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 19 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 20 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 21 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 22 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |
via German Zuschauer
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Zuschauer | agent noun of zuschauen; audience |
| 2 | German | zuschauen | to look on; to watch |
| 3 | German | zu- | Prefix meaning to, to-, at, on, by; Obsolete form... |
| 4 | Middle High German | zuo- | — |
| 5 | Old High German | zuo- | — |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | *tō | — |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | tō | to |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | de | Emphatic or contrastive particle, and, but;... |