Where does “Privatbesitz” come from?
Privatbesitz (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.
Privatbesitz (German): private property; private ownership
Definitions
- private property; private ownership
Ancestry of “Privatbesitz”, step by step
Privatbesitz 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 besitz
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | besitz | singular imperative of besitzen |
| 2 | Middle High German | besitz | seat, place |
| 3 | Middle High German | besitzen | to sit; to beseige |
| 4 | Old High German | bisizzen | — |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | *bisittjan | to sit by, near |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | bisitjaną | to sit among, sit near |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | bi- | by, at |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | bi | by, at; near, around |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂m̥bʰi | around, on either side of, about; in exchange... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂n̥tbʰi | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂énts | forehead; front |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂ent- | face; forehead; front |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂en- | on, onto |