Where does “Schmuckindustrie” come from?
Schmuckindustrie (German) comes from German Industrie, from French industrie, from Latin industria, from Latin industrius, from Latin struō, from Proto-Italic strowō, from Proto-Indo-European strew-, from Proto-Indo-European sterh₃- — sterile, infertile.
Schmuckindustrie (German): jewellery industry
Definitions
- jewellery industry
Ancestry of “Schmuckindustrie”, step by step
Schmuckindustrie traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Industrie
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Industrie | industry |
| 2 | French | industrie | an industry, productive enterprise; a profession;... |
| 3 | Latin | industria | diligence, assiduousness; industry, activity;... |
| 4 | Latin | industrius | active, industrious, assiduous, diligent |
| 5 | Latin | struō | to place one thing on top of another, to pile up, join together |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | strowō | pile up; construct, build |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | strew- | to spread, to strew |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | sterh₃- | to spread, extend, stretch out |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ster- | sterile, infertile |
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 |