Where does “Gefängnis” come from?

Gefängnis (German) comes from German gefangen — caught; imprisoned; trapped.

Gefängnis (German): prison, jail; prison

Definitions

  1. prison, jail; prison

Ancestry of “Gefängnis”, step by step

Gefängnis traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German gefangen

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germangefangencaught; imprisoned; trapped

via German (ge)vancnisse

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1German(ge)vancnisse—

Words derived from “Gefängnis”

Every word from German gefangen →