Where does “Sprachverlust” come from?

Sprachverlust (German) comes from German Verlust, from Middle High German verlust, from Old High German firlust, from Proto-West Germanic *fralusti, from Proto-Germanic *fralustiz — loss.

Sprachverlust (German): language loss, attrition

Definitions

  1. language loss, attrition

Ancestry of “Sprachverlust”, step by step

Sprachverlust traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German Verlust

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanVerlustloss
2Middle High Germanverlust—
3Old High Germanfirlust—
4Proto-West Germanic*fralustiloss
5Proto-Germanic*fralustizloss

via German sprāche

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germansprāchelanguage body of words, and set of methods of combining them
2Middle High Germansprāche—
3Old High Germansprāhha—
4Proto-West Germanic*sprākuspeech, language
Every word from Proto-Germanic *fralustiz →