Where does “abtauchen” come from?

abtauchen (German) comes from German tauchen, from Middle High German tūchen, from Old High German tūhhan, from Proto-West Germanic dūkan, from Proto-Germanic dūkaną — to duck, to dive under.

abtauchen (German): to submerge; to plunge, descend

Definitions

  1. to submerge; to plunge, descend

Ancestry of “abtauchen”, step by step

abtauchen traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German tauchen

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germantauchento dive; to bathe
2Middle High Germantūchento dive, to duck, to submerge, to become submerged
3Old High Germantūhhan
4Proto-West Germanicdūkanto duck, to dive under
5Proto-Germanicdūkanąto duck, to dive under

via German AB

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanABAbbreviation of Anrufbeantworter; Abbreviation of...
2Middle High Germanab
3Old High Germanabof
4Proto-Germanic*ab
5Proto-Indo-Europeanapó
Every word from Proto-Germanic dūkaną