Where does “Gänsefüßchen” come from?
Gänsefüßchen (German) comes from German -chen, from Middle High German -echen.
Gänsefüßchen (German): quotation mark
Ancestry of “Gänsefüßchen”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | German | -chen | nowadays the most common suffix to create a... |
| 2 | Middle High German | -echen | — |