Where does “Vācietis” come from?
Vācietis (Latvian) comes from Latvian vāci, from Proto-Indo-European wekʷ- — to speak, to sound out.
Ancestry of “Vācietis”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latvian | vāci | Germans; German; pertaining to Germany and its... |
| 2 | Proto-Indo-European | wekʷ- | to speak, to sound out |