Where does “Wehentätigkeit” come from?
Wehentätigkeit (German) comes from German Tätigkeit, from German tätig, 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.
Wehentätigkeit (German): uterine contraction
Definitions
- uterine contraction
Ancestry of “Wehentätigkeit”, step by step
Wehentätigkeit traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Tätigkeit
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Tätigkeit | activity; job |
| 2 | German | tätig | active |
| 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 wēhe
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | wēhe | — |
| 2 | German | -e | stark + API → Stärke; used to form the plural of... |
| 3 | German | Du | Alternative letter-case form of du; literally:... |
| 4 | Middle High German | dū | you thou, singular familiar |
| 5 | Old High German | dū | thou, you second-person singular pronoun |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | þū | you |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | *þū | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | túh₂ | you, thou |