Where does “achtundzwanzigeckig” come from?
achtundzwanzigeckig (German) comes from German Achtundzwanzigeck, from German achtundzwanzig, from German zwanzig, from German Seite, from German -ig, from German -jährig, from German Jahr, from Middle High German jār — year.
achtundzwanzigeckig (German): twenty-eight-sided, icosioctagonal
Definitions
- twenty-eight-sided, icosioctagonal
Ancestry of “achtundzwanzigeckig”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Achtundzwanzigeck | icosioctagon: polygon with 28 vertices |
| 2 | German | achtundzwanzig | twenty-eight |
| 3 | German | zwanzig | twenty |
| 4 | German | Seite | side; face, side, surface of any... |
| 5 | German | -ig | -y; forms adjectives from nouns; forms adjectives... |
| 6 | German | -jährig | years old; years lasting |
| 7 | German | Jahr | year |
| 8 | Middle High German | jār | year |
| 9 | Old High German | jār | year |
| 10 | Proto-West Germanic | jār | year |
| 11 | Proto-Germanic | jērą | year; name of the J-rune |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | yeh₁r- | year |