Where does “Volksabstimmung” come from?
Volksabstimmung (German) comes from German Abstimmung, from German abstimmen, from German stimmen, from German stimme, from Middle High German stimme, from Old High German stimma, from Proto-Germanic *stebnu, from Proto-Germanic stebnō — mouth, muzzle.
Volksabstimmung (German): referendum
Definitions
- referendum
Ancestry of “Volksabstimmung”, step by step
Volksabstimmung traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Abstimmung
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Abstimmung | vote; co-ordination, synchronising, agreement |
| 2 | German | abstimmen | to vote; sich abstimmen: to coordinate or... |
| 3 | German | stimmen | to be right, be true; to vote; to tune |
| 4 | German | stimme | inflection of stimmen: ## first-person singular... |
| 5 | Middle High German | stimme | — |
| 6 | Old High German | stimma | — |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | *stebnu | — |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | stebnō | voice; sound |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | stomen- | mouth, muzzle |
via German volk
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | volk | people, nation, folk, tribe, race group united by culture, history, descent, and/or language |
| 2 | Middle High German | volc | — |
| 3 | Old High German | folc | folk; people collectively, nation; people, nation |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | folk | people, tribe |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | fulką | people; tribe |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | pleh₁- | to fill |