Where does “Pflanzenspezies” come from?

Pflanzenspezies (German) comes from German Pflanze, from Old High German pflanza, from Latin planta, from Proto-Italic plāntā, from Proto-Indo-European pléh₂-n̥t-eh₂, from Proto-Indo-European pleh₂- — flat.

Pflanzenspezies (German): plant species

Definitions

  1. plant species

Ancestry of “Pflanzenspezies”, step by step

Pflanzenspezies traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German Pflanze

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanPflanzeplant
2Old High Germanpflanzaplant
3Latinplantaany vegetable production that serves to propagate...
4Proto-Italicplāntā—
5Proto-Indo-Europeanpléh₂-n̥t-eh₂—
6Proto-Indo-Europeanpleh₂-flat

via German Spezies

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanSpeziesspecies
2Latinspeciēsseeing, view, look
3Latinspeciōto observe, watch, look at
4Proto-Italicspekjōto observe, to see
5Proto-Indo-Europeanspéḱyetito be looking at, to keep looking at
6Proto-Indo-Europeanspeḱ-to see, to look, to observe
Every word from Proto-Indo-European pleh₂- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European pléh₂-n̥t-eh₂ →Every word from Proto-Italic plāntā →