Where does “Kernwaffentechnik” come from?
Kernwaffentechnik (German) comes from German Technik, from French technique, from Latin technicus, from Ancient Greek τεχνικός, from Ancient Greek τέχνη, from Ancient Greek -λογία, from Ancient Greek λόγος, from Ancient Greek λέγω — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
Kernwaffentechnik (German): nuclear/atomic weapons technology
Definitions
- nuclear/atomic weapons technology
Ancestry of “Kernwaffentechnik”, step by step
Kernwaffentechnik traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Technik
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Technik | technique; technology |
| 2 | French | technique | technical; technique, technology |
| 3 | Latin | technicus | technical |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | τεχνικός | technical; artistic, skillful; of or pertaining... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | τέχνη | craft, skill, trade; art; cunning, wile |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | -λογία | Base for nouns denoting the study of something,... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | λόγος | That which is said: word, sentence, speech,... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | λέγω | I put in order, arrange, gather; I choose, count,... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |
via German Kernwaffe
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Kernwaffe | nuclear weapon |
| 2 | German | kern | kernel |
| 3 | Middle High German | kerne | — |
| 4 | Old High German | kerno | core; pith |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | kernô | kernel, core |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵr̥h₂nóm | grain |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵr̥h₂nós | matured, grown old |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵerh₂- | to grow old, to mature |