Where does “Kartoffeldeutscher” come from?
Kartoffeldeutscher (German) comes from Danish kartoffeltysker, from Danish kartoffel, from German kartoffel, from German Tartüffel, from Italian tartufolo, from Italian tartufo, from Medieval Latin territuberum, from Latin terrae — dry.
Kartoffeldeutscher (German): Potato German someone who or whose ancestors settled in Jutland in the 18th century to introduce potato farming
Definitions
- Potato German someone who or whose ancestors settled in Jutland in the 18th century to introduce potato farming
Ancestry of “Kartoffeldeutscher”, step by step
Kartoffeldeutscher traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Danish kartoffeltysker
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danish | kartoffeltysker | Potato German German who settled in the Jutlandic heaths in the mid-1700s |
| 2 | Danish | kartoffel | potato; whitey |
| 3 | German | kartoffel | potato |
| 4 | German | Tartüffel | — |
| 5 | Italian | tartufolo | Synonym of tartufo; Synonym of topinambur |
| 6 | Italian | tartufo | truffle; hypocrite; tartuffe; first-person... |
| 7 | Medieval Latin | territuberum | — |
| 8 | Latin | terrae | nominative plural of terra; genitive singular of... |
| 9 | Latin | terra | ground, dry land; earth, soil, dirt; Earth's... |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | terzā | earth |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ters-eh₂ | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ters- | dry |
via German Deutscher
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Deutscher | German; inflection of Deutsche: ## strong... |
| 2 | German | deutsch | German |
| 3 | Old High German | tiusch | — |
| 4 | Old High German | diutisc | Alternative form of diutisk; popular, vernacular;... |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | þiudisk | of the people, popular, vernacular |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | þiudiskaz | of the people, popular; of the tribe |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | þeudō | people, tribe |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | tewtéh₂ | people, tribe |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | tewh₂- | to swell; to crowd; to be strong |