Where does “bērnistaba” come from?
bērnistaba (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 — to travel, tour.
bērnistaba (Latvian): nursery for children
Definitions
- nursery for children
Ancestry of “bērnistaba”, step by step
bērnistaba traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Latvian bērns
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latvian | bērns | child; animal offspring; person, with respect to... |
| 2 | German | Bern | — |
| 3 | German | Bernd | an anon |
| 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- | to travel, tour |