Where does “Interrogativpronomen” come from?

Interrogativpronomen (German) comes from German Pronomen, from Latin prōnōmen, from Latin nōmen, from Latin est, from Proto-Indo-European h₁ésti, from Proto-Indo-European h₁es- — to be.

Interrogativpronomen (German): interrogative pronoun

Definitions

  1. interrogative pronoun

Ancestry of “Interrogativpronomen”, step by step

Interrogativpronomen traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German Pronomen

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanPronomenpronoun (sensu lato); pronoun (sensu stricto), or pronominal adjective or determiner
2Latinprōnōmenpronoun
3Latinnōmenname
4Latinestthird-person singular present active indicative...
5Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁éstito be
6Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁es-to be

via German interrogativ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germaninterrogativinterrogative
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁es- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁ésti →Every word from Latin est →