Where does “Kleinschreibung” come from?
Kleinschreibung (German) comes from German Schreibung, from German schreiben, from Middle High German schrīben, from Old High German scrīban, from Proto-West Germanic skrīban, from Proto-Germanic skrībaną, from Latin scrībō, from Proto-Italic skreiβō — to write.
Kleinschreibung (German): lower-case printing
Ancestry of “Kleinschreibung”, step by step