Where does “Straftatbestand” come from?

Straftatbestand (German) comes from German Tatbestand, from German bestand, from German be-, from German be.

Straftatbestand (German): criminal offence, statutory offense

Definitions

  1. criminal offence, statutory offense

Ancestry of “Straftatbestand”, step by step

Straftatbestand traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German Tatbestand

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanTatbestandelement also collective as
2Germanbestandfirst/third-person singular preterite of bestehen
3Germanbe-Inseparable verbal prefix that signifies working...
4Germanbe

via German strāfe

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanstrāfepunishment
2Middle High Germanstrāfe
3Proto-Germanic*strēpōn
Every word from German be