Where does “Mainstreaming” come from?
Mainstreaming (German) comes from English mainstreaming, from English mainstream, from English stream, from Middle English streem, from Middle English strem, from Old English strēam, from Proto-West Germanic straum, from Proto-Germanic straumaz — to flow; to guard; to bind, to tie together.
Mainstreaming (German): mainstreaming
Definitions
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Ancestry of “Mainstreaming”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | mainstreaming | The process of bringing something into the mainstream |
| 2 | English | mainstream | Used or accepted broadly rather than by small... |
| 3 | English | stream | A small river; a large creek; a body of moving... |
| 4 | Middle English | streem | Alternative form of strem |
| 5 | Middle English | strem | A waterbody; a region of the world containing... |
| 6 | Old English | strēam | current; stream |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | straum | stream |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | straumaz | stream, current, river |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | srowmos | river |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | srew- | to flow, stream |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ser- | to flow; to guard; to bind, to tie together |