Where does “Volksempfänger” come from?
Volksempfänger (German) comes from German Empfänger, 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).
Volksempfänger (German): "people's receiver" - a series of cheap household radio receivers developed in Nazi Germany for propaganda
Definitions
- "people's receiver" - a series of cheap household radio receivers developed in Nazi Germany for propaganda
Ancestry of “Volksempfänger”, step by step
Volksempfänger traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Empfänger
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Empfänger | agent noun of empfangen |
| 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 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 |