Where does “Vorsichtsmaßnahme” come from?
Vorsichtsmaßnahme (German) comes from German Vorsicht, from German vorsichtig, from German -ig, from German -jährig, from German Jahr, from Middle High German jār, from Old High German jār, from Proto-West Germanic jār — year.
Vorsichtsmaßnahme (German): precaution
Definitions
- precaution
Ancestry of “Vorsichtsmaßnahme”, step by step
Vorsichtsmaßnahme traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Vorsicht
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Vorsicht | caution, cautiousness; Beware! |
| 2 | German | vorsichtig | deliberate (not hasty or sudden); careful, cautious, wary, circumspect |
| 3 | German | -ig | -y; forms adjectives from nouns; forms adjectives... |
| 4 | German | -jährig | years old; years lasting |
| 5 | German | Jahr | year |
| 6 | Middle High German | jār | year |
| 7 | Old High German | jār | year |
| 8 | Proto-West Germanic | jār | year |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | jērą | year; name of the J-rune |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | yeh₁r- | year |
via German Maßnahme
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Maßnahme | measure |
| 2 | German | maßnehmen | to measure (with a measuring tape), to take measure |
| 3 | German | nehmen | to take (something into one's possession or on one's body) |
| 4 | Middle High German | nëmen | to take |
| 5 | Old High German | neman | to take |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | neman | to take |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | nemaną | to take |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | nem- | to distribute; to give, to take |