Where does “Zitatwort” come from?

Zitatwort (German) comes from German Zitat, from Latin citatum, from Latin citō, from Latin -tō, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

Zitatwort (German): foreign word, used to designate foreign objects or concepts

Definitions

  1. foreign word, used to designate foreign objects or concepts

Ancestry of “Zitatwort”, step by step

Zitatwort traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German Zitat

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanZitatquotation
2Latincitatumnominative neuter singular of citātus; accusative...
3Latincitōquickly, fast
4Latin-tōForms here
5Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
6Proto-Italic-tus—
7Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

via German wôrt

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanwôrtplural word as an isolated unit
2Middle High Germanwortword; verb
3Old High Germanwortword; verb
4Proto-West Germanicwordword
5Proto-Germanicwurdąword
6Proto-Indo-Europeanwerdʰo-word
7Proto-Indo-Europeanwerh₁-to speak, say
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →Every word from Latin -tus →Every word from Latin -tō →
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