Where does “Mindestgrenze” come from?

Mindestgrenze (German) comes from German Grenze, from Middle High German grenize, from Old Polish granica, from Proto-Slavic grani̋ca — border, boundary, limit, a line that separates things or areas.

Mindestgrenze (German): lower limit, minimum limit, minimum threshold

Definitions

  1. lower limit, minimum limit, minimum threshold

Ancestry of “Mindestgrenze”, step by step

Mindestgrenze traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German Grenze

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanGrenzeborder; limit; frontier
2Middle High Germangrenizeborder; frontier
3Old Polishgranicaborder
4Proto-Slavicgrani̋caborder, boundary, limit, a line that separates things or areas

via German mindest

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanmindestsuperlative degree of minder
Every word from Proto-Slavic grani̋ca