Where does “Zweitaktmotor” come from?

Zweitaktmotor (German) comes from German zwei, from Middle High German zwēne, from Old High German zwēne, from Proto-West Germanic twai-, from Proto-Germanic twai, from Proto-Indo-European dwóh₁ — two.

Zweitaktmotor (German): two-stroke engine

Definitions

  1. two-stroke engine

Ancestry of “Zweitaktmotor”, step by step

Zweitaktmotor traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via German zwei

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanzweitwo
2Middle High Germanzwēnetwo
3Old High Germanzwēnetwo
4Proto-West Germanictwai-two
5Proto-Germanictwaitwo
6Proto-Indo-Europeandwóh₁two

via German Takt

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanTakttact; time; bar, measure
2Frenchtacttact
3Latintāctustouched, having been touched, grasped, having been grasped
4Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
5Proto-Italic-tus—
6Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

via German motor

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanmotorengine mechanical device
2Latinmotormover; that which moves something; first-person...
3Latin-tor-er
4Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
5Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
6Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European dwóh₁ →