Where does “Kuhbläke” come from?

Kuhbläke (German) comes from German Kuh, from Middle High German kuo, from Old High German kuo, from Proto-West Germanic *kō, from Proto-Germanic *kōz — cow.

Kuhbläke (German): backwater, Hicksville, bumfuck a backwards, boring rural town or village

Definitions

  1. backwater, Hicksville, bumfuck a backwards, boring rural town or village

Ancestry of “Kuhbläke”, step by step

Kuhbläke traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German Kuh

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanKuhcow
2Middle High Germankuocow
3Old High Germankuocow
4Proto-West Germanic*kōcow
5Proto-Germanic*kōzcow

via German blake

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanblakeinflection of blaken: ## first-person singular...
2Germanblakento burn turbulently or with a lot of smoke and...
3Middle Low Germanblaken—
4Old Dutchblakon—
5Proto-Germanicblakōną—
Every word from Proto-Germanic *kōz →