Where does “Steigerlied” come from?
Steigerlied (German) comes from German lied, from German -er, from Old High German -āri, from Proto-West Germanic -ārī, from Proto-Germanic -ārijaz, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).
Steigerlied (German): A song or march dating back to the 16th century, popular in all of Germany’s traditional mining regions and considered the hymn of the mining profession
Definitions
- A song or march dating back to the 16th century, popular in all of Germany’s traditional mining regions and considered the hymn of the mining profession
Ancestry of “Steigerlied”, step by step
Steigerlied traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German lied
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | lied | song musical composition sung with vocals or vocal lyrics |
| 2 | German | -er | Forms agent nouns etc. from verbs, suffixed to... |
| 3 | Old High German | -āri | used to form agent nouns |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | -ārī | -er |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | -ārijaz | -er |
| 6 | Latin | -ārius | er |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *-āzios | Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals) |