Where does “Plattentektonik” come from?

Plattentektonik (German) comes from German platten.

Plattentektonik (German): plate tectonics

Definitions

  1. plate tectonics

Ancestry of “Plattentektonik”, step by step

Plattentektonik traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German platten

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanplatten

via German Tektonik

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanTektoniktectonics
Every word from German platten
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