Where does “Ortseingangstafel” come from?

Ortseingangstafel (German) comes from German tafel, from Middle High German tavel, from Old High German tavala, from Old Italian tavola, from Latin tabula, from Proto-Italic *taðlā — board.

Ortseingangstafel (German): place-name sign at the entrance of a village, town, or city

Definitions

  1. place-name sign at the entrance of a village, town, or city

Ancestry of “Ortseingangstafel”, step by step

Ortseingangstafel traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German tafel

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germantafelinflection of tafeln: ## first-person singular...
2Middle High Germantavel
3Old High Germantavala
4Old Italiantavola
5Latintabulatablet, sometimes a tablet covered with wax for...
6Proto-Italic*taðlāboard

via German Ortseingang

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanOrtseingang
Every word from Proto-Italic *taðlāEvery word from Latin tabulaEvery word from Old Italian tavola