Where does “Pendler” come from?
Pendler (German) comes from Swedish pendlare, from Swedish pendla, from Swedish pendel, from German pendel, from Medieval Latin pendulum, from Latin pendulus, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
Pendler (German): commuter male or of unspecified gender, a person that works in one town but lives in another
Definitions
- commuter male or of unspecified gender, a person that works in one town but lives in another
Ancestry of “Pendler”, step by step
Pendler traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish pendlare
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | pendlare | commuter (person who regularly travels between two places, such as work and home) |
| 2 | Swedish | pendla | to swing like a pendulum; to pendulate |
| 3 | Swedish | pendel | a pendulum; a commute, a commuter train |
| 4 | German | pendel | inflection of pendeln: ## first-person singular... |
| 5 | Medieval Latin | pendulum | nominative neuter singular of pendulus;... |
| 6 | Latin | pendulus | hanging, hanging down, pendent, suspended;... |
| 7 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |