Where does “Pechband” come from?

Pechband (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.

Pechband (Luxembourgish): adhesive tape, tape, sticky tape

Definitions

  1. adhesive tape, tape, sticky tape

Ancestry of “Pechband”, step by step

Pechband traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Luxembourgish Band

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LuxembourgishBandribbon, band; tape, band; ligament
2Germanbandpast of binden
3Frenchbandeband, strip; stripe; strip
4Frenchthere; here, present
5Italianthere
6Spanishlafeminine singular definite article; the
7Portuguesethere; used with an adverb phrase to indicate...
8GermanaAlternative form of A; Abbreviation of a-Moll;...
9Germana-MollA-minor
10Hungarianathe; this; that
11Frenchàto; on the, to; at
12Middle Frenchato; towards; third-person singular present...
13Old Frenchato; towards; belonging to
14LatinA
15Etruscan𐌀and, also
16Ancient Greekᾱ̔

via Luxembourgish Pech

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LuxembourgishPechglue; sticky tape; bad luck, misfortune
2Old High Germanpeh
3Proto-Germanic*pīk
4Latinpixpitch, tar
5Proto-Indo-Europeanpik-to be angry; pitch; resin
6Proto-Indo-Europeanpi-sap, juice
Every word from Ancient Greek ᾱ̔Every word from Etruscan 𐌀Every word from Latin A