Where does “List” come from?

List (Hunsrik) comes from Italian lista, from Old High German līsta, from Proto-Germanic līstōn.

List (Hunsrik): list

Definitions

  1. list

Ancestry of “List”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianlistalist, pile; strip, stripe; inflection of...
2Old High Germanlīsta
3Proto-Germaniclīstōn
Every word from Proto-Germanic līstōn
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