Where does “Bandscheif” come from?
Bandscheif (Luxembourgish) comes from Luxembourgish Band, from German band, from French bande, from French là, from Italian là, from Spanish la, from Portuguese lá, from German a.
Bandscheif (Luxembourgish): intervertebral disc
Definitions
- intervertebral disc
Ancestry of “Bandscheif”, step by step
Bandscheif traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Luxembourgish Band
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Luxembourgish | Band | ribbon, band; tape, band; ligament |
| 2 | German | band | past of binden |
| 3 | French | bande | band, strip; stripe; strip |
| 4 | French | là | there; here, present |
| 5 | Italian | là | there |
| 6 | Spanish | la | feminine singular definite article; the |
| 7 | Portuguese | lá | there; used with an adverb phrase to indicate... |
| 8 | German | a | Alternative form of A; Abbreviation of a-Moll;... |
| 9 | German | a-Moll | A-minor |
| 10 | Hungarian | a | the; this; that |
| 11 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 12 | Middle French | a | to; towards; third-person singular present... |
| 13 | Old French | a | to; towards; belonging to |
| 14 | Latin | A | — |
| 15 | Etruscan | 𐌀 | and, also |
| 16 | Ancient Greek | ᾱ̔ | — |
via Luxembourgish Scheif
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Luxembourgish | Scheif | slice; disc |
| 2 | Middle High German | schībe | disc flat round piece |
| 3 | Old High German | skība | — |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | *skībā | slice, sliver |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | skībǭ | a shaving; slice |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | sḱēy- | to shine; to shimmer; shadow; luster, gloss,... |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | skaidą | separation, distinction |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | skÁit- | to cut, part, spearate, divide; to cut, part,... |