Where does “Lokomotivführer” come from?
Lokomotivführer (German) comes from German Lokomotive, from English locomotive, from French locomotif, from Vulgar Latin motivus, from Latin motus, from Latin movere, from Latin moveo, from Proto-Italic moweō — to move.
Lokomotivführer (German): engineer Canada and the US, engine driver Britain, train driver male or of unspecified gender
Definitions
- engineer Canada and the US, engine driver Britain, train driver male or of unspecified gender
Ancestry of “Lokomotivführer”, step by step
Lokomotivführer traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Lokomotive
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Lokomotive | train locomotive |
| 2 | English | locomotive | The power unit of a train that pulls the coaches... |
| 3 | French | locomotif | locomotive |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | motivus | moving; stirred; moved |
| 5 | Latin | motus | moved, stirred, disturbed, having been moved;... |
| 6 | Latin | movere | present active infinitive of moveō; second-person... |
| 7 | Latin | moveo | I move, stir, set in motion; I disturb, shake,... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | moweō | to move |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | mew- | to move |