Where does “Strafverfolgungsbehörde” come from?
Strafverfolgungsbehörde (German) comes from German Strafverfolgung, from German Verfolgung, from German verfolgen, from German folgēn, from Middle High German volgen, from Old High German folgēn, from Proto-West Germanic folgēn, from Proto-Germanic fulgāną — to fill.
Strafverfolgungsbehörde (German): law enforcement agency
Definitions
- law enforcement agency
Ancestry of “Strafverfolgungsbehörde”, step by step
Strafverfolgungsbehörde traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Strafverfolgung
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Strafverfolgung | criminal prosecution |
| 2 | German | Verfolgung | persecution; pursuit, pursuance; tracking,... |
| 3 | German | verfolgen | to pursue; to persecute; to trace |
| 4 | German | folgēn | to follow on the same path or in a sequence |
| 5 | Middle High German | volgen | — |
| 6 | Old High German | folgēn | to follow |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | folgēn | to follow |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | fulgāną | to follow |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | fullaz | full; the whole, the entire |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | pl̥h₁nós | full |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | pleh₁- | to fill |