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Where does “konspirationstheoretiker” come from?

konspirationstheoretiker (German) comes from German theoretiker, from German -iker, from German -er, from Old High German -āri, from Proto-West Germanic -ārī, from Proto-Germanic -ārijaz, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios.

Ancestry of “konspirationstheoretiker”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germantheoretiker—
2German-iker-ist, -ic
3German-erForms agent nouns etc. from verbs, suffixed to...
4Old High German-āri—
5Proto-West Germanic-ārī-er
6Proto-Germanic-ārijaz-er
7Latin-ārius—
8Proto-Italic*-āzios—
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