Where does “Luftfahrtindustrie” come from?
Luftfahrtindustrie (German) comes from German Industrie, from French industrie, from Latin industria, from Latin industrius, from Latin struō, from Proto-Italic strowō, from Proto-Indo-European strew-, from Proto-Indo-European sterh₃- — sterile, infertile.
Luftfahrtindustrie (German): aircraft / aerospace industry
Definitions
- aircraft / aerospace industry
Ancestry of “Luftfahrtindustrie”, step by step
Luftfahrtindustrie traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Industrie
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Industrie | industry |
| 2 | French | industrie | an industry, productive enterprise; a profession;... |
| 3 | Latin | industria | diligence, assiduousness; industry, activity;... |
| 4 | Latin | industrius | active, industrious, assiduous, diligent |
| 5 | Latin | struō | to place one thing on top of another, to pile up, join together |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | strowō | pile up; construct, build |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | strew- | to spread, to strew |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | sterh₃- | to spread, extend, stretch out |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ster- | sterile, infertile |
via German Luftfahrt
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Luftfahrt | aeronautics, aviation |
| 2 | German | luft | air, atmosphere |
| 3 | Middle High German | luft | — |
| 4 | Old High German | luft | air |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | luftu | roof; air |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | luftuz | roof; roof of the earth, firmament; heavens, sky;... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | lewp- | peel, break off; to flake off, peel, damage; to... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | lew- | dirt, mud; to cut, remove, prune, separate; to... |