Where does “Zigarettenpackerl” come from?
Zigarettenpackerl (German) comes from German Zigarette, from French cigarette, from French cigare, from Spanish cigarro, from Spanish cigarra, from Vulgar Latin *cicār(r)a, from Latin cicada — cicada, tree-cricket; vocative singular of...
Zigarettenpackerl (German): a pack of cigarettes, a cigarette pack
Definitions
- a pack of cigarettes, a cigarette pack
Ancestry of “Zigarettenpackerl”, step by step
Zigarettenpackerl traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Zigarette
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Zigarette | cigarette |
| 2 | French | cigarette | cigarette |
| 3 | French | cigare | cigar |
| 4 | Spanish | cigarro | cigar; cigarette |
| 5 | Spanish | cigarra | cicada |
| 6 | Vulgar Latin | *cicār(r)a | — |
| 7 | Latin | cicada | cicada, tree-cricket; vocative singular of... |
via German Packerl
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Packerl | a packaging unit: goods (solid as well as liquid) packaged in a pack, packet, bag or carton |
| 2 | German | packen | to pack (luggage, a bundle, etc.); to get packed |
| 3 | Middle Low German | packen | to pack |
| 4 | Old Saxon | pakko | — |
| 5 | Frankish | pakkō | — |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | pakkô | bundle; pack; package |