Where does “Kaffeesahne” come from?

Kaffeesahne (German) comes from German Kaffee, from French café, from Italian caffè, from Turkish kahve, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه, from Persian قهوه, from Arabic قهوة — wine; coffee; coffee shop, café.

Kaffeesahne (German): low-fat cream used for coffee

Definitions

  1. low-fat cream used for coffee

Ancestry of “Kaffeesahne”, step by step

Kaffeesahne traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German Kaffee

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanKaffeecoffee; afternoon coffee, coffee and cake
2Frenchcafécoffee; coffee colour; public house
3Italiancaffècoffee; a café
4Turkishkahvecoffee
5Ottoman Turkishقهوهcoffee
6Persianقهوهcoffee
7Arabicقهوةwine; coffee; coffee shop, café

via German Sahne

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanSahnecream
2Middle High Germansāne—
3Old Frenchsainhealthy; in good health
4Latinsaginafeasting, nourishment; corpulence; second-person...
5Proto-Indo-Europeanseh₂-to satiate, satisfy
Every word from Arabic قهوة →Every word from Persian قهوه →Every word from Ottoman Turkish قهوه →