Where does “missverstehen” come from?

missverstehen (German) comes from German miß-, from Middle High German mis-, from Old High German missa-, from Proto-Germanic missa-, from Proto-Indo-European mitto, from Proto-Indo-European meyth₂- — to hurt; to exchange, remove; to replace, to...

missverstehen (German): to misunderstand, to misapprehend

Definitions

  1. to misunderstand, to misapprehend

Ancestry of “missverstehen”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanmiß-—
2Middle High Germanmis-—
3Old High Germanmissa-mis-
4Proto-Germanicmissa-mis-, badly, wrongly
5Proto-Indo-Europeanmittomutual, reciprocal
6Proto-Indo-Europeanmeyth₂-to hurt; to exchange, remove; to replace, to...

Words derived from “missverstehen”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European meyth₂- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European mitto →Every word from Proto-Germanic missa- →