Where does “Filterblase” come from?
Filterblase (German) comes from German blāse, from Middle High German blāse, from Old High German blāsa, from German blasen, from Middle High German blāsen, from Old High German blāsan, from Proto-West Germanic blāsan, from Proto-Germanic blēsaną.
Filterblase (German): filter bubble
Definitions
- filter bubble
Ancestry of “Filterblase”, step by step
Filterblase traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via German blāse
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | blāse | bubble |
| 2 | Middle High German | blāse | — |
| 3 | Old High German | blāsa | — |
| 4 | German | blasen | to blow; to play; to fellate, to perform oral sex |
| 5 | Middle High German | blāsen | — |
| 6 | Old High German | blāsan | to blow |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | blāsan | to blow |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | blēsaną | to blow |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰléh₁- | to bleat |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |
via German filter
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | filter | inflection of filtern: ## first-person singular... |
| 2 | French | filtré | past participle of filtrer; filtered |
| 3 | Medieval Latin | filtrum | felt |
| 4 | Frankish | filtir | — |
| 5 | Frankish | *felt | — |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | *felt | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | peld- | something beaten or compressed; felt |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | pelh₂- | to approach |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | pel- | to cover, to wrap; skin, hide, cloth; to fold |
via English filter bubble
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | filter bubble | A state of intellectual isolation resulting from exposure to only highly personalized Internet content (which is insular and polarizing) |