Where does “Lernervarietät” come from?
Lernervarietät (German) comes from Catalan varietat, from Latin varietās, from Latin varius, from Latin vārus, from Proto-Indo-European h₂wer-, from Proto-Indo-European wēr-, from Proto-Indo-European wer- — to burn; to cover, heed, notice; squirrel.
Lernervarietät (German): interlanguage
Definitions
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Ancestry of “Lernervarietät”, step by step
Lernervarietät traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Catalan varietat
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Catalan | varietat | variety |
| 2 | Latin | varietās | difference, diversity, variety |
| 3 | Latin | varius | diverse, different, various, variegated |
| 4 | Latin | vārus | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂wer- | to lift up; to moisten; to flow; to raise, hang |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | wēr- | true |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | wer- | to burn; to cover, heed, notice; squirrel |
via German Lerner
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Lerner | learner (usually of a language) male or of unspecified gender |
| 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) |