Where does “Sprachfehler” come from?
Sprachfehler (German) comes from German Fehler, from German fehlen, from Middle High German vælen, from Old French faillir, from Latin fallēre.
Sprachfehler (German): speech impediment
Ancestry of “Sprachfehler”, step by step
Sprachfehler traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Fehler
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | German | Fehler | fault, error, mistake |
| 2 | German | fehlen | to lack; to be absent from, to be missing from,... |
| 3 | Middle High German | vælen | — |
| 4 | Old French | faillir | alternative infinitive of falir; to fail, err |
| 5 | Latin | fallēre | — |
via German sprāche
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | German | sprāche | language body of words, and set of methods of combining them |
| 2 | Middle High German | sprāche | — |
| 3 | Old High German | sprāhha | — |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | *sprāku | speech, language |
Words derived from “Sprachfehler”