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Where does “zoumaachen” come from?

zoumaachen (Luxembourgish) comes from Luxembourgish zou, from Middle High German zuo, from Old High German zuo, from Proto-West Germanic *tō, from Proto-Germanic tō, from Proto-Indo-European de — Emphatic or contrastive particle, and, but;...

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Ancestry of “zoumaachen”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Luxembourgishzouadverbial form of the preposition zu; closed,...
2Middle High Germanzuo—
3Old High Germanzuoto
4Proto-West Germanic*tō—
5Proto-Germanictōto
6Proto-Indo-EuropeandeEmphatic or contrastive particle, and, but;...
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