Where does “Grundsatzpapier” come from?

Grundsatzpapier (German) comes from German papier, from Middle High German papier, from Old French papier, from Old Catalan paper, from Latin papȳrus, from French -ine, from French -é, from Middle French -é.

Grundsatzpapier (German): position paper

Definitions

  1. position paper

Ancestry of “Grundsatzpapier”, step by step

Grundsatzpapier traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German papier

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanpapierpaper material
2Middle High Germanpapier
3Old Frenchpapierto murmur
4Old Catalanpaperpaper sheet material typically used for writing on or printing
5Latinpapȳruspapyrus plant
6French-inefeminine singular of -in; female equivalent of...
7Frenchpast participle root verb suffix of regular -er...
8Middle Frenchpast participle root verb suffix of regular; -ed, -en, -n
9Old Frenchused to form past participles of regular -er...
10Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
11Proto-ItalicForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
12Proto-Indo-European-éh₂

via German Grundsatz

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanGrundsatzprinciple, tenet
2GermanSatzsentence; proposition, theorem; set
3Middle High Germansaz
4Middle High Germansetzento set, place down
5Old High Germansezzento make sit, set, put
6Proto-West Germanic*sattjanto set, place
7Proto-Germanicsatjanąto set, to place down
8Proto-Indo-Europeansodéyetito set, to seat, to cause to sit
9Proto-Indo-European-éyetiForms causative imperfective verbs from roots;...
10Proto-Indo-European-yetiCreates transitive imperfective verbs from roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂Every word from French -ineEvery word from Latin -a