Where does “Verelffachung” come from?

Verelffachung (German) comes from German verelffachen, from German elffach, from German Elf, from English elf, from Middle English elf, from Old English ielf, from Proto-West Germanic albi, from Proto-Germanic albī.

Verelffachung (German): increasing elevenfold

Definitions

  1. increasing elevenfold

Ancestry of “Verelffachung”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanverelffachento multiply by eleven, to undecuple
2Germanelffachelevenfold
3GermanElfeleven; football team, XI; elf
4EnglishelfA luminous spirit presiding over nature and...
5Middle Englishelfelf, fairy; spirit, shade
6Old Englishielfelf
7Proto-West Germanicalbielf, fairy
8Proto-Germanicalbīriver
9LatinAlbis
10LatinAlbeus
Every word from Latin Albeus
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