Where does “Klaviertastatur” come from?
Klaviertastatur (German) comes from German Tastatur, from Italian tastiera, from Italian tasto, from Italian tastare, from Vulgar Latin tastare, from Latin taxāre, from Latin Taxus, from Ancient Greek εἶδος — to look at.
Klaviertastatur (German): piano keyboard
Definitions
- piano keyboard
Ancestry of “Klaviertastatur”, step by step
Klaviertastatur traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Tastatur
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Tastatur | keyboard |
| 2 | Italian | tastiera | keyboard; fingerboard |
| 3 | Italian | tasto | key, button; touch, feel; fret, fingerboard |
| 4 | Italian | tastare | to feel, grope, cop a feel; to probe |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | tastare | to touch, feel; present active infinitive of... |
| 6 | Latin | taxāre | — |
| 7 | Latin | Taxus | yew |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | εἶδος | That which is seen: form, image, shape;... |
| 9 | Spanish | -scopio | -scope |
| 10 | Latin | -scopium | — |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | σκοπέω | I look, look at, behold; I examine, inspect; 413... |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | σκοπός | watcher, lookout; protector, guardian; spy, scout |
| 13 | Ancient Greek | σκέπτομαι | I look at, examine; I examine, consider, think |
| 14 | Proto-Hellenic | sképťomai | to look at |
via German Klavier
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Klavier | piano |
| 2 | French | clavier | keyboard; keyring; mouth, teeth |
| 3 | French | -ier | used to form the names of trees bearing a... |
| 4 | Middle French | -er | Forms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs;... |
| 5 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 10 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |