Where does “Piercingschmuck” come from?
Piercingschmuck (German) comes from German Piercing, from English piercing, from English pierce, from Middle English perce, from Old French percier, from Latin pertusiāre, from Latin pertūsus, from Latin pertundere — to praise, laud.
Piercingschmuck (German): body piercing jewellery
Definitions
- body piercing jewellery
Ancestry of “Piercingschmuck”, step by step
Piercingschmuck traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Piercing
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Piercing | body piercing |
| 2 | English | piercing | present participle of pierce; The action of the... |
| 3 | English | pierce | to puncture; to break through; to create a hole... |
| 4 | Middle English | perce | pierce |
| 5 | Old French | percier | to pierce |
| 6 | Latin | pertusiāre | — |
| 7 | Latin | pertūsus | perforated |
| 8 | Latin | pertundere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 9 | Latin | pertundo | I bore through, perforate |
| 10 | Latin | tundo | I beat, strike, buffet; I pound, bruise, crush,... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | tundō | beat, strike |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)tewd- | to push, to hit |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | stew- | to praise, laud |
via German schmuck
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | schmuck | pretty, spruce |
| 2 | Low German | smuk | — |
| 3 | Middle Low German | smuk | lithe, neat; lithe, delicate, neat, trim;... |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | smeugan | to creep, to crawl |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | *smeuganą | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)mewk- | to let loose, release; to slip away, escape, flee |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | smewg- | to slip, glide, slide; to slip, glide; be slimy |