Where does “bērnība” come from?
bērnība (Latvian) comes from Latvian bērns, from German Bern, from German Bernd, from German Bernhard, from Old High German Bernhart, from Old High German hart, from Proto-West Germanic hard(ī), from Proto-Germanic harduz.
bērnība (Latvian): childhood
Ancestry of “bērnība”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latvian | bērns | child; animal offspring; person, with respect to... |
| 2 | German | Bern | — |
| 3 | German | Bernd | — |
| 4 | German | Bernhard | Bernard |
| 5 | Old High German | Bernhart | — |
| 6 | Old High German | hart | hard |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | hard(ī) | hard |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | harduz | hard; brave |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kert- | times; to weave, twist together; time |
| 10 | Proto-Turkic | *keŕ- | — |