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

  1. mainstreaming

Ancestry of “Mainstreaming”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishmainstreamingThe process of bringing something into the mainstream
2EnglishmainstreamUsed or accepted broadly rather than by small...
3EnglishstreamA small river; a large creek; a body of moving...
4Middle EnglishstreemAlternative form of strem
5Middle EnglishstremA waterbody; a region of the world containing...
6Old Englishstrēamcurrent; stream
7Proto-West Germanicstraumstream
8Proto-Germanicstraumazstream, current, river
9Proto-Indo-Europeansrowmosriver
10Proto-Indo-Europeansrew-to flow, stream
11Proto-Indo-Europeanser-to flow; to guard; to bind, to tie together
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ser-