Where does “umstimmen” come from?

umstimmen (German) comes from German stimmen, from German stimme, from Middle High German stimme, from Old High German stimma, from Proto-Germanic *stebnu, from Proto-Germanic stebnō, from Proto-Indo-European stomen- — mouth, muzzle.

umstimmen (German): to retune

Definitions

  1. to retune

Ancestry of “umstimmen”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanstimmento be right, be true; to vote; to tune
2Germanstimmeinflection of stimmen: ## first-person singular...
3Middle High Germanstimme—
4Old High Germanstimma—
5Proto-Germanic*stebnu—
6Proto-Germanicstebnōvoice; sound
7Proto-Indo-Europeanstomen-mouth, muzzle

Words derived from “umstimmen”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European stomen- →