Where does “Kartoffelschäler” come from?

Kartoffelschäler (German) comes from German kartoffel, from German Tartüffel, from Italian tartufolo, from Italian tartufo, from Medieval Latin territuberum, from Latin terrae, from Latin terra, from Proto-Italic terzā — dry.

Kartoffelschäler (German): potato peeler

Definitions

  1. potato peeler

Ancestry of “Kartoffelschäler”, step by step

Kartoffelschäler traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German kartoffel

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germankartoffelpotato
2GermanTartüffel
3ItaliantartufoloSynonym of tartufo; Synonym of topinambur
4Italiantartufotruffle; hypocrite; tartuffe; first-person...
5Medieval Latinterrituberum
6Latinterraenominative plural of terra; genitive singular of...
7Latinterraground, dry land; earth, soil, dirt; Earth's...
8Proto-Italicterzāearth
9Proto-Indo-Europeanters-eh₂
10Proto-Indo-Europeanters-dry

via German Schäler

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanSchälerpeeler
2German-erForms agent nouns etc. from verbs, suffixed to...
3Old High German-āriused to form agent nouns
4Proto-West Germanic-ārī-er
5Proto-Germanic-ārijaz-er
6Latin-āriuser
7Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ters-Every word from Proto-Indo-European ters-eh₂Every word from Proto-Italic terzā