Where does “oberflächennah” come from?
oberflächennah (German) comes from German oberfläche, from Latin superficiēs, from Latin faciēs, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr.
oberflächennah (German): near-surface
Definitions
- near-surface
Ancestry of “oberflächennah”, step by step
oberflächennah traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German oberfläche
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | oberfläche | surface |
| 2 | Latin | superficiēs | the top, surface |
| 3 | Latin | faciēs | make, form, shape, figure, configuration |
| 4 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 5 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 6 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 7 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
via German nāh
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | nāh | near in space or time or in an abstract sense, close, nearby |
| 2 | Middle High German | nāh | — |
| 3 | Old High German | nāh | near, close; close, near |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | nēhwiz | closer, nearer |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | nēhw | near, close |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | nēhwaz | near, close |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂nḗḱwos | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂neḱ- | to reach, to attain |