Where does “Nachrichtenagentur” come from?
Nachrichtenagentur (German) comes from German Agentur, from Italian agente, from Latin agēns, from Latin agō, from Proto-Italic agō, from Proto-Indo-European h₂éǵeti, from Proto-Indo-European h₂eǵ- — to drive.
Nachrichtenagentur (German): news agency
Definitions
- news agency
Ancestry of “Nachrichtenagentur”, step by step
Nachrichtenagentur traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Agentur
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Agentur | agency |
| 2 | Italian | agente | agent, representative; constable, low rank police... |
| 3 | Latin | agēns | doing, acting, making |
| 4 | Latin | agō | to act, to behave |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | agō | drive; push, impel; do, act |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂éǵeti | to be driving |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂eǵ- | to drive |
via German nachricht
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | nachricht | news, piece of news, notification |