Where does “seltsām” come from?

seltsām (German) comes from Middle High German seltsām, from Middle High German seltsæn, from Old High German seltsāni.

seltsām (German): strange, weird, odd, funny, curious

Definitions

  1. strange, weird, odd, funny, curious

Ancestry of “seltsām”, step by step

seltsām traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Middle High German seltsām

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle High Germanseltsām—
2Middle High Germanseltsæn—
3Old High Germanseltsāni—

via Proto-Germanic seldanē

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicseldanēseldom; rarely
2Proto-Germanicseldanazrare, strange

Words derived from “seltsām”

Every word from Old High German seltsāni →Every word from Middle High German seltsæn →Every word from Middle High German seltsām →