Where does “title” come from?
title (German) comes from German titeln, from German titel — inflection of titeln:
## first-person singular...
title (German): inflection of titeln:
## first-person singular...
Definitions
- inflection of titeln:
## first-person singular...
Ancestry of “title”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | German | titeln | to publish a story under a specified headline; to... |
| 2 | German | titel | inflection of titeln:
## first-person singular... |