Where does “Privatangelegenheit” come from?
Privatangelegenheit (German) comes from German privat, from Latin prīvātus, from Latin prīvō, from French ferriprive, from Latin ferrum, from Cornish -er, from English -er, from Middle English -er.
Privatangelegenheit (German): private matter, private affair
Definitions
- private matter, private affair
Ancestry of “Privatangelegenheit”, step by step
Privatangelegenheit traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German privat
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | privat | private |
| 2 | Latin | prīvātus | bereaved, deprived, robbed or stripped of something, having been deprived of something |
| 3 | Latin | prīvō | to bereave, deprive, rob or strip of something |
| 4 | French | ferriprive | Suffering from a deficiency of iron |
| 5 | Latin | ferrum | iron; any tool made of iron; fight, clash |
| 6 | Cornish | -er | Forms masculine agent nouns |
| 7 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 8 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 9 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 10 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
via German Angelegenheit
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Angelegenheit | matter, issue, affair |
| 2 | German | -heit | Converts an adjective into a noun and usually... |
| 3 | Middle High German | -heit | ness, -ity, -hood; forms nouns from adjectives, denoting the abstract quality of the adjective |
| 4 | Old High German | -heit | nature, character |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | -haidu | hood |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | haiduz | manner, way; personality, character; appearance |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)kayt- | — |