Where does “Lösegeldzahlung” come from?
Lösegeldzahlung (German) comes from German Lösegeld, from German lösen, from Dutch lozen, from Middle Dutch lôsen, from Old Dutch lōsen, from Proto-West Germanic lausijan, from Proto-Germanic lausijaną, from Proto-Germanic -janą — he, she.
Lösegeldzahlung (German): ransom payment
Definitions
- ransom payment
Ancestry of “Lösegeldzahlung”, step by step
Lösegeldzahlung traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Lösegeld
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Lösegeld | ransom money paid for the freeing of a hostage |
| 2 | German | lösen | to loose; to loosen; to detach; to remove; to... |
| 3 | Dutch | lozen | to drain, to discharge; to drive away, to force... |
| 4 | Middle Dutch | lôsen | — |
| 5 | Old Dutch | lōsen | — |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | lausijan | to release, to set free |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | lausijaną | to make loose; to release, to set free |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | -janą | Derives denominatives from nouns and factitives... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 11 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via German Zählung
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Zählung | count (the process and the result of establishing the number or quantity of items); census; metering, reckoning |
| 2 | German | zählen | to count; to reckon, to consider, to deem; to... |
| 3 | Middle High German | zeln | — |
| 4 | Old High German | zellan | — |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | talljan | to count, to enumerate; to recount, to tell |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | taljaną | to enumerate, count; to account, recount, tell |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | talą | speech; number |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | dol- | reckoning, calculation, fraud; calculation, fraud |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | del- | to aim, calculate, adjust, count; to reckon,... |