Where does “Freihandelsabkommen” come from?
Freihandelsabkommen (German) comes from German Freihandel, from German handel, from German handeln, from English handle, from Middle English handel, from Old English handle, from Old English handlian, from Proto-West Germanic handulōn — hand.
Freihandelsabkommen (German): free trade agreement
Definitions
- free trade agreement
Ancestry of “Freihandelsabkommen”, step by step
Freihandelsabkommen traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Freihandel
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Freihandel | free trade |
| 2 | German | handel | inflection of handeln: ## first-person singular... |
| 3 | German | handeln | to act; to take action; to negotiate; to bargain;... |
| 4 | English | handle | The part of an object which is held in the hand... |
| 5 | Middle English | handel | — |
| 6 | Old English | handle | a handle |
| 7 | Old English | handlian | to handle |
| 8 | Proto-West Germanic | handulōn | to handle |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | handlōną | to take or hold in the hand, seize, grip |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | handuz | hand |
via German abkommen
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | abkommen | to come from, to derive from; to stray from; to... |
| 2 | Middle High German | abekomen | — |
| 3 | Old High German | abaqueman | — |
| 4 | Old High German | kweman | to come |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | kweman | to come |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | kwemaną | to come |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷémt | to step, to take a step; to arrive |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷem- | to step |