Where does “Gedankenblase” come from?
Gedankenblase (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.
Gedankenblase (German): thought bubble
Definitions
- thought bubble
Ancestry of “Gedankenblase”, step by step
Gedankenblase traces back through two 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- | — |