Where does “hundekalt” come from?
hundekalt (German) comes from Danish hunde-, from Danish hund, from Old Norse hundr, from Proto-Germanic hundaz, from Proto-Indo-European ḱwn̥tós, from Proto-Indo-European ḱwṓ — dog.
hundekalt (German): freezing cold
Ancestry of “hundekalt”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Danish | hunde- | Intensifies adjectives denoting undesirable... |
| 2 | Danish | hund | dog; hound; hundred |
| 3 | Old Norse | hundr | a dog |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | hundaz | dog |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱwn̥tós | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱwṓ | dog |