Where does “Kreatur” come from?
Kreatur (German) comes from French créature, from Latin creātūra, from Latin creō, from Proto-Indo-European ḱer-, from Proto-Indo-European kr̥-, from Proto-Indo-European ker- — army.
Kreatur (German): creature
Definitions
- creature
Ancestry of “Kreatur”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | créature | a creature, a living being, especially seen as... |
| 2 | Latin | creātūra | a created thing; creature |
| 3 | Latin | creō | to create, to give existence to, to form, to make, to produce, to originate out of other materials or out of nihility (transitively) |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱer- | to grow, to make grow, to nourish; to plait,... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | kr̥- | to turn, to bend |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | ker- | army |