Where does “Stromtrasse” come from?
Stromtrasse (German) comes from German Trasse, from French tracé, from French tracer, from Old French tracier, from Latin tractiāre, from Latin tractus, from Latin trahere, from Latin traho — to run.
Stromtrasse (German): power line
Definitions
- power line
Ancestry of “Stromtrasse”, step by step
Stromtrasse traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Trasse
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Trasse | line |
| 2 | French | tracé | past participle of tracer |
| 3 | French | tracer | to draw or plot (a diagram), to trace out |
| 4 | Old French | tracier | — |
| 5 | Latin | tractiāre | trace, score, delineate |
| 6 | Latin | tractus | dragged, having been dragged; trailed, having... |
| 7 | Latin | trahere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 8 | Latin | traho | I drag, pull; I trail; I extract, withdraw |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | traɣō | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | tregʰ- | to drag, pull?; to run, walk |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰregʰ- | to run |
via German ström
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | ström | singular imperative of strömen; first-person... |
| 2 | Middle High German | stroum | — |
| 3 | Old High German | stroum | — |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | straum | stream |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | straumaz | stream, current, river |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | srowmos | river |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | srew- | to flow, stream |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ser- | to flow; to guard; to bind, to tie together |