Where does “Kaffeetrinker” come from?
Kaffeetrinker (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.
Kaffeetrinker (German): coffee drinker
Definitions
- coffee drinker
Ancestry of “Kaffeetrinker”, step by step
Kaffeetrinker traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Kaffee
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Kaffee | coffee; afternoon coffee, coffee and cake |
| 2 | French | café | coffee; coffee colour; public house |
| 3 | Italian | caffè | coffee; a café |
| 4 | Turkish | kahve | coffee |
| 5 | Ottoman Turkish | قهوه | coffee |
| 6 | Persian | قهوه | coffee |
| 7 | Arabic | قهوة | wine; coffee; coffee shop, café |
via German Trinker
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Trinker | drinker; alcoholic |
| 2 | German | -er | Forms agent nouns etc. from verbs, suffixed to... |
| 3 | Old High German | -āri | used to form agent nouns |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | -ārī | -er |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | -ārijaz | -er |
| 6 | Latin | -ārius | er |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *-āzios | Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals) |