Where does “Trantüte” come from?
Trantüte (German) comes from German trān, from Middle Low German trān, from Old Saxon trahn, from Proto-West Germanic *trahnu — tear in one's eye.
Trantüte (German): slowcoach, laggard
Ancestry of “Trantüte”, step by step
Trantüte traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German trān
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | German | trān | train oil; oil extracted from the fatty tissue (blubber) of certain polar mammals |
| 2 | Middle Low German | trān | — |
| 3 | Old Saxon | trahn | — |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | *trahnu | tear in one's eye |
via German Tüte
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | German | Tüte | a small to medium-sized bag, usually of paper or... |
| 2 | Middle Low German | tûte | — |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | *tut(t)- | — |