Where does “Tennisschläger” come from?
Tennisschläger (German) comes from German Schläger, 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).
Tennisschläger (German): tennis racket
Definitions
- tennis racket
Ancestry of “Tennisschläger”, step by step
Tennisschläger traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Schläger
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Schläger | agent noun of schlagen |
| 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) |
via German Tennis
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Tennis | tennis |
| 2 | English | tennis | A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets |
| 3 | Old French | tenez | second-person plural present indicative of tenir;... |
| 4 | Old French | tenir | to possess; to have; to hold |
| 5 | Latin | teneō | to hold, have; to grasp |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | tenēō | to hold |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ten- | to stretch, to extend |