Where does “mazbērns” come from?
mazbērns (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.
mazbērns (Latvian): grandchild
Definitions
- grandchild
Ancestry of “mazbērns”, step by step
mazbērns 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 |