Where does “Grachtenrundfahrt” come from?
Grachtenrundfahrt (German) comes from German Rundfahrt, from German Rund, from French rond, from Old French reont, from Latin retundus, from Latin rotundus, from Latin rotō, from Latin Rota — to run.
Grachtenrundfahrt (German): touristic boat tour along the city canals (as operated in many Dutch cities)
Definitions
- touristic boat tour along the city canals (as operated in many Dutch cities)
Ancestry of “Grachtenrundfahrt”, step by step
Grachtenrundfahrt traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Rundfahrt
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Rundfahrt | tour |
| 2 | German | Rund | round |
| 3 | French | rond | round; drunk; circle |
| 4 | Old French | reont | round |
| 5 | Latin | retundus | round |
| 6 | Latin | rotundus | round, circular; spherical, rotund; rounded,... |
| 7 | Latin | rotō | to turn, trend, wheel, roll, swing about, whirl, rotate; brandish |
| 8 | Latin | Rota | an ecclesiastical appellate court in the Catholic... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | rotā | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | Hróth₂-eh₂ | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | Hreth₂- | to run |
via German Gracht
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Gracht | canal within a city |
| 2 | Dutch | gracht | canal; ditch, trench; grave |
| 3 | Middle Dutch | gracht | grave; ditch, canal, dug watercourse; groove |
| 4 | Old Dutch | graft | — |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | graftuz | digging, carving |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | grabaną | to dig; to engrave, scratch |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | gʰrābʰ- | to dig, scratch, scrape |