Where does “Lokomotivführerin” come from?

Lokomotivführerin (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.

Lokomotivführerin (German): engineer Canada and the US, engine driver Britain, train driver (female)

Definitions

  1. engineer Canada and the US, engine driver Britain, train driver (female)

Ancestry of “Lokomotivführerin”, step by step

Lokomotivführerin traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German Lokomotive

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanLokomotivetrain locomotive
2EnglishlocomotiveThe power unit of a train that pulls the coaches...
3Frenchlocomotiflocomotive
4Vulgar Latinmotivusmoving; stirred; moved
5Latinmotusmoved, stirred, disturbed, having been moved;...
6Latinmoverepresent active infinitive of moveō; second-person...
7LatinmoveoI move, stir, set in motion; I disturb, shake,...
8Proto-Italicmoweōto move
9Proto-Indo-Europeanmew-to move

via German Führerin

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanFührerinfemale equivalent of Führer
2GermanFühreragent noun of führen
3Middle High Germanfüerer—
4Old High Germanfôrari—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European mew- →Every word from Proto-Italic moweō →Every word from Latin moveo →