Where does “meistverkauft” come from?

meistverkauft (German) comes from German meist, from Old High German meist, from Proto-Germanic maist — most, to the greatest degree.

meistverkauft (German): most-sold

Definitions

  1. most-sold

Ancestry of “meistverkauft”, step by step

meistverkauft traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German meist

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanmeistmostly, most often, usually
2Old High Germanmeistmost
3Proto-Germanicmaistmost, to the greatest degree

via German verkauft

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanverkauftpast participle of verkaufen; inflection of...
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