Where does “Kreditnehmer” come from?

Kreditnehmer (German) comes from German Kredit, from French crédit, from Italian credito, from Latin crēditum, from Latin crēdō, from Proto-Italic krezdō, from Proto-Indo-European ḱréddʰh₁eti, from Proto-Indo-European -dʰh₁eti — to do, put, place.

Kreditnehmer (German): borrower

Definitions

  1. borrower

Ancestry of “Kreditnehmer”, step by step

Kreditnehmer traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German Kredit

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanKreditloan
2Frenchcréditcredit; course credit
3Italiancreditocredit
4Latincrēdituma loan
5Latincrēdōto believe, to trust in, to give credence to
6Proto-Italickrezdōto believe
7Proto-Indo-Europeanḱréddʰh₁etito believe, trust
8Proto-Indo-European-dʰh₁etiForms resultative verbs
9Proto-Indo-Europeandʰeh₁-to do, put, place

via German Nehmer

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanNehmertaker
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 dʰeh₁-