Where does “Immunschwäche” come from?
Immunschwäche (German) comes from German Schwäche, from German -e, from German Du, from Middle High German dū, from Old High German dū, from Proto-West Germanic þū, from Proto-Germanic *þū, from Proto-Indo-European túh₂ — you, thou.
Immunschwäche (German): immunodeficiency
Definitions
- immunodeficiency
Ancestry of “Immunschwäche”, step by step
Immunschwäche traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Schwäche
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Schwäche | weakness |
| 2 | German | -e | stark + API → Stärke; used to form the plural of... |
| 3 | German | Du | Alternative letter-case form of du; literally:... |
| 4 | Middle High German | dū | you thou, singular familiar |
| 5 | Old High German | dū | thou, you second-person singular pronoun |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | þū | you |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | *þū | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | túh₂ | you, thou |
via German immun
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | immun | immune |
| 2 | Latin | immūnis | free or exempt from taxes, public service, or penalty (+ ablative) |
| 3 | Latin | in- -is | less, without, lacking |
| 4 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 5 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 6 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |