Where does “Wirtschaftsblase” come from?
Wirtschaftsblase (German) comes from German blāse, from Middle High German blāse, from Old High German blāsa, from German blasen, from Middle High German blāsen, from Old High German blāsan, from Proto-West Germanic blāsan, from Proto-Germanic blēsaną.
Wirtschaftsblase (German): economic bubble, speculative bubble a market situation in which asset prices soar to levels significantly above their fundamental value, followed by a sudden collapse
Definitions
- economic bubble, speculative bubble a market situation in which asset prices soar to levels significantly above their fundamental value, followed by a sudden collapse
Ancestry of “Wirtschaftsblase”, step by step
Wirtschaftsblase traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German blāse
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | blāse | bubble |
| 2 | Middle High German | blāse | — |
| 3 | Old High German | blāsa | — |
| 4 | German | blasen | to blow; to play; to fellate, to perform oral sex |
| 5 | Middle High German | blāsen | — |
| 6 | Old High German | blāsan | to blow |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | blāsan | to blow |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | blēsaną | to blow |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰléh₁- | to bleat |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |
via German Wirtschaft
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Wirtschaft | economy; inn, pub; economics |
| 2 | German | -schaft | -ship, -hood |
| 3 | Old High German | -skaft | ship |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | -skapi | Forms nouns denoting state, originally meaning... |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | -skapiz | Forms nouns denoting state, originally meaning... |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | skapjaną | to make, to create; to shape |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | skab- | to cut, split, hew, shape; to cut, split, carve,... |