Where does “Landepiste” come from?

Landepiste (German) comes from German Piste, from French piste, from Italian pista, from Italian pesta, from Italian pestare, from Latin pisto, from Latin pīnsō, from Spanish pienso — to stretch.

Landepiste (German): landing strip

Definitions

  1. landing strip

Ancestry of “Landepiste”, step by step

Landepiste traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German Piste

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanPistepiste; runway; track
2Frenchpistetrack or trail; track; lead, hint
3Italianpistatrack, trail, scent, clue; track, racetrack,...
4Italianpestafootprint; mess, trouble; third-person singular...
5Italianpestareto crush, grind, pound; to trample, step on,...
6Latinpistoto pound
7Latinpīnsōto beat, pound
8Spanishpiensoanimal feed; thought
9Latinpēnsumallotment, portion, weight (of wool measured out to a slave to spin in a day)
10Latinpendōto weigh, weigh out
11Proto-Italicpendōhang, put in a hanging position
12Proto-Indo-European(s)péndeti
13Proto-Indo-European(s)pend-to stretch

via German landen

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanlandento land; to end up
2Middle Low Germanlanden
Every word from Proto-Indo-European (s)pend-Every word from Proto-Indo-European (s)péndetiEvery word from Proto-Italic pendō