Where does “Gehaltsliste” come from?

Gehaltsliste (German) comes from German līste, from Italian lista, from Old High German līsta, from Proto-Germanic līstōn.

Gehaltsliste (German): payroll list of employees who receive salary, together with the amounts due to each

Definitions

  1. payroll list of employees who receive salary, together with the amounts due to each

Ancestry of “Gehaltsliste”, step by step

Gehaltsliste traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German līste

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanlīstelist
2Italianlistalist, pile; strip, stripe; inflection of...
3Old High Germanlīsta—
4Proto-Germaniclīstōn—

via German Gehalt

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanGehaltsalary; content
2Middle High Germangehalten—
3Old High Germangihaltan—
Every word from Proto-Germanic līstōn →Every word from Old High German līsta →Every word from Italian lista →