Where does “Wellblechpiste” come from?
Wellblechpiste (German) comes from German Piste, from French piste, from Italian pista, from Italian pesta, from Italian pestare, from Latin pisto, from Latin pīnsō, from Spanish pienso — to stretch.
Wellblechpiste (German): washboard road
Definitions
- washboard road
Ancestry of “Wellblechpiste”, step by step
Wellblechpiste traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Piste
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Piste | piste; runway; track |
| 2 | French | piste | track or trail; track; lead, hint |
| 3 | Italian | pista | track, trail, scent, clue; track, racetrack,... |
| 4 | Italian | pesta | footprint; mess, trouble; third-person singular... |
| 5 | Italian | pestare | to crush, grind, pound; to trample, step on,... |
| 6 | Latin | pisto | to pound |
| 7 | Latin | pīnsō | to beat, pound |
| 8 | Spanish | pienso | animal feed; thought |
| 9 | Latin | pēnsum | allotment, portion, weight (of wool measured out to a slave to spin in a day) |
| 10 | Latin | pendō | to weigh, weigh out |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | pendō | hang, put in a hanging position |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)péndeti | — |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)pend- | to stretch |
via German Wellblech
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Wellblech | corrugated iron |
| 2 | German | welle | inflection of wellen: ## first-person singular... |
| 3 | Middle High German | wëlle | — |
| 4 | Old High German | wella | source |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | wallan | to well up, spring out, bubble forth |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | wallaną | to well up, spring out, bubble forth |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | wēlH- | to roll, to undulate |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | welH- | to turn, to wind |