Where does “Raketenabschussrampe” come from?
Raketenabschussrampe (German) comes from German Abschussrampe, from German Rampe, from French rampe, from French ramper, from Middle French ramper, from Old French ramper, from Frankish rampōn, from Frankish rampa — to cut, cut off, sever.
Raketenabschussrampe (German): (rocket) launch pad
Definitions
- (rocket) launch pad
Ancestry of “Raketenabschussrampe”, step by step
Raketenabschussrampe traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Abschussrampe
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Abschussrampe | launch pad, launching pad |
| 2 | German | Rampe | ramp |
| 3 | French | rampe | ramp |
| 4 | French | ramper | to crawl, worm (along); to creep |
| 5 | Middle French | ramper | to crawl |
| 6 | Old French | ramper | to climb; to ascend; to go up |
| 7 | Frankish | rampōn | — |
| 8 | Frankish | rampa | — |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | hrempaną | to bend, curve, make waves, wrinkle; to curve,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)kreb- | to turn; to touch; to turn, bend, shrink, rotate,... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)ker- | to cut off; to turn, bend |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | sek- | to cut, cut off, sever |
via German Rakete
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Rakete | rocket, missile |
| 2 | Italian | rocchetta | incendiary rocket |
| 3 | Italian | rocchetto | spool; reel; coil |
| 4 | Italian | -etto | Alterative suffix used to form melioratives,... |
| 5 | English | -et | Used to form diminutives, loosely construed |
| 6 | Middle English | -et | Forms diminutive nouns from nouns; in some words,... |
| 7 | Old French | -et | Used to form a diminutive, masculine noun;... |
| 8 | Latin | -ātus | ed |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -ātos | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂tos | Forms adjectives from nouns, indicating the possession of a thing or a quality |