Where does “Tasteninstrumentenbauer” come from?
Tasteninstrumentenbauer (German) comes from German Tasteninstrument, from German taste, from Italian tasto, from Italian tastare, from Vulgar Latin tastare, from Latin taxāre, from Latin Taxus, from Ancient Greek εἶδος — to look at.
Tasteninstrumentenbauer (German): keyboard musical instrument maker a producer of keyboard instruments, such as pianos, harpsichords, pipe organs, accordions, concertinas, etc
Definitions
- keyboard musical instrument maker a producer of keyboard instruments, such as pianos, harpsichords, pipe organs, accordions, concertinas, etc
Ancestry of “Tasteninstrumentenbauer”, step by step
Tasteninstrumentenbauer traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Tasteninstrument
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Tasteninstrument | keyboard |
| 2 | German | taste | inflection of tasten: ## first-person singular... |
| 3 | Italian | tasto | key, button; touch, feel; fret, fingerboard |
| 4 | Italian | tastare | to feel, grope, cop a feel; to probe |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | tastare | to touch, feel; present active infinitive of... |
| 6 | Latin | taxāre | — |
| 7 | Latin | Taxus | yew |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | εἶδος | That which is seen: form, image, shape;... |
| 9 | Spanish | -scopio | -scope |
| 10 | Latin | -scopium | — |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | σκοπέω | I look, look at, behold; I examine, inspect; 413... |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | σκοπός | watcher, lookout; protector, guardian; spy, scout |
| 13 | Ancient Greek | σκέπτομαι | I look at, examine; I examine, consider, think |
| 14 | Proto-Hellenic | sképťomai | to look at |
via German bauer
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | bauer | farmer male or of unspecified gender |
| 2 | German | bauen | to build; to construct; to roll a joint; to rely |
| 3 | Middle High German | būwen | to build |
| 4 | Old High German | būan | to build |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | *būan | — |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | būaną | to dwell, reside |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰuH- | to become, grow, appear |