Where does “aufmerksamkeitsgeil” come from?
aufmerksamkeitsgeil (German) comes from German Aufmerksamkeit, from German aufmerksam, from German aufmerken, from German merken, from Middle High German merken, from Old High German merchen, from Proto-West Germanic *markijan, from Proto-Germanic markijaną — he, she.
aufmerksamkeitsgeil (German): attention whoring
Definitions
- attention whoring
Ancestry of “aufmerksamkeitsgeil”, step by step
aufmerksamkeitsgeil traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Aufmerksamkeit
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Aufmerksamkeit | attention, care |
| 2 | German | aufmerksam | attentive, alert, observant; kind, nice |
| 3 | German | aufmerken | to observe |
| 4 | German | merken | to notice; to memorize, remember; to realize |
| 5 | Middle High German | merken | — |
| 6 | Old High German | merchen | — |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | *markijan | to mark |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | markijaną | to mark; to perceive, notice |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | -janą | Derives denominatives from nouns and factitives... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 12 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via German geil
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | geil | salacious; lustful; horny; keen on; bent on;... |
| 2 | Middle High German | geil | — |
| 3 | Old High German | geil | — |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | gail | wanton; lustful |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | gailaz | merry, excited, lush, beautiful, lustful |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | gʰoylos | frothing, arrogant, tempestuous, violent, wanton;... |