Where does “Panikattacke” come from?
Panikattacke (German) comes from German Attacke, from French attaque, from French attaquer, from Italian attaccare, from Italian a-, from Italian staccare, from Italian distaccare, from Middle French destacher — to cover; pole, stick, beam.
Panikattacke (German): panic attack
Definitions
- panic attack
Ancestry of “Panikattacke”, step by step
Panikattacke traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Attacke
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Attacke | attack |
| 2 | French | attaque | attack; onset of a syllable; first-person... |
| 3 | French | attaquer | to attack |
| 4 | Italian | attaccare | to stick, attach, append; to attack |
| 5 | Italian | a- | ad-; a- |
| 6 | Italian | staccare | to remove, take or take down; to tear out; to... |
| 7 | Italian | distaccare | to separate; to remove, detach, or take off; to... |
| 8 | Middle French | destacher | to detach; to separate |
| 9 | Old French | destachier | to detach; to separate |
| 10 | Old French | atachier | to attach |
| 11 | Old French | estachier | Alternative form of atachier; bind; to fasten... |
| 12 | Old French | estache | stake; strap |
| 13 | Medieval Latin | staca | a stake |
| 14 | Gothic | 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌺𐌰 | — |
| 15 | Proto-Germanic | stakô | stake |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)teg- | to cover; pole, stick, beam |
via German Panik
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Panik | panic |
| 2 | French | panique | panicked; panic; first-person singular present... |
| 3 | Middle French | panique | — |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | πανικός | pertaining to Pan |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | πᾶν | neuter nominative singular of πᾶς; neuter... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | ὀπτικός | of or relating to seeing, sight or vision: optic,... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | ὄψις | view |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | ὄψ | voice; word; eye, face |
| 9 | Proto-Hellenic | wókʷs | voice |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | wekʷ- | to speak, to sound out |