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
- borrower
Ancestry of “Kreditnehmer”, step by step
Kreditnehmer traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Kredit
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Kredit | loan |
| 2 | French | crédit | credit; course credit |
| 3 | Italian | credito | credit |
| 4 | Latin | crēditum | a loan |
| 5 | Latin | crēdō | to believe, to trust in, to give credence to |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | krezdō | to believe |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱréddʰh₁eti | to believe, trust |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -dʰh₁eti | Forms resultative verbs |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰeh₁- | to do, put, place |
via German Nehmer
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Nehmer | taker |
| 2 | German | -er | Forms agent nouns etc. from verbs, suffixed to... |
| 3 | Old High German | -āri | used to form agent nouns |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | -ārī | -er |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | -ārijaz | -er |
| 6 | Latin | -ārius | er |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *-āzios | Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals) |