Where does “Umschalttaste” come from?
Umschalttaste (German) comes from German taste, from Italian tasto, from Italian tastare, from Vulgar Latin tastare, from Latin taxāre, from Latin Taxus, from Ancient Greek εἶδος, from Spanish -scopio — to see, to look, to observe.
Umschalttaste (German): shift key
Definitions
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Ancestry of “Umschalttaste”, step by step
Umschalttaste traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German taste
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | taste | inflection of tasten: ## first-person singular... |
| 2 | Italian | tasto | key, button; touch, feel; fret, fingerboard |
| 3 | Italian | tastare | to feel, grope, cop a feel; to probe |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | tastare | to touch, feel; present active infinitive of... |
| 5 | Latin | taxāre | — |
| 6 | Latin | Taxus | yew |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | εἶδος | That which is seen: form, image, shape;... |
| 8 | Spanish | -scopio | -scope |
| 9 | Latin | -scopium | — |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | σκοπέω | I look, look at, behold; I examine, inspect; 413... |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | σκοπός | watcher, lookout; protector, guardian; spy, scout |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | σκέπτομαι | I look at, examine; I examine, consider, think |
| 13 | Proto-Hellenic | sképťomai | to look at |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | spéḱyeti | to be looking at, to keep looking at |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | speḱ- | to see, to look, to observe |
via German umschalten
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | umschalten | to switch |
| 2 | German | schalten | to switch |
| 3 | Middle High German | schalten | — |
| 4 | Old High German | scaltan | to push a ship forward |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | skaldaną | to knock, hit |