Where does “Papierindustrie” come from?
Papierindustrie (German) comes from German papier, from Middle High German papier, from Old French papier, from Old Catalan paper, from Latin papȳrus, from French -ine, from French -é, from Middle French -é.
Papierindustrie (German): paper industry
Definitions
- paper industry
Ancestry of “Papierindustrie”, step by step
Papierindustrie traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German papier
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | papier | paper material |
| 2 | Middle High German | papier | — |
| 3 | Old French | papier | to murmur |
| 4 | Old Catalan | paper | paper sheet material typically used for writing on or printing |
| 5 | Latin | papȳrus | papyrus plant |
| 6 | French | -ine | feminine singular of -in; female equivalent of... |
| 7 | French | -é | past participle root verb suffix of regular -er... |
| 8 | Middle French | -é | past participle root verb suffix of regular; -ed, -en, -n |
| 9 | Old French | -é | used to form past participles of regular -er... |
| 10 | Latin | -a | suffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -ā | Forms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂ | — |
via German Industrie
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Industrie | industry |
| 2 | French | industrie | an industry, productive enterprise; a profession;... |
| 3 | Latin | industria | diligence, assiduousness; industry, activity;... |
| 4 | Latin | industrius | active, industrious, assiduous, diligent |
| 5 | Latin | struō | to place one thing on top of another, to pile up, join together |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | strowō | pile up; construct, build |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | strew- | to spread, to strew |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | sterh₃- | to spread, extend, stretch out |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ster- | sterile, infertile |