Where does “Hexaederstumpf” come from?

Hexaederstumpf (German) comes from German stumpf, from Middle High German stumpf, from Old High German stumpf, from Proto-Germanic stumpaz — stump.

Hexaederstumpf (German): truncated cube, truncated hexahedron

Definitions

  1. truncated cube, truncated hexahedron

Ancestry of “Hexaederstumpf”, step by step

Hexaederstumpf traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German stumpf

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanstumpfdull, blunt; flat
2Middle High Germanstumpf—
3Old High Germanstumpf—
4Proto-Germanicstumpazstump

via German Hexaeder

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanHexaederhexahedron
Every word from Proto-Germanic stumpaz →