Where does “Motbaunt” come from?

Motbaunt (Plautdietsch) comes from Proto-Indo-European mot-.

Motbaunt (Plautdietsch): tape measure

Definitions

  1. tape measure

Ancestry of “Motbaunt”, step by step

Motbaunt traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Indo-European mot-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeanmot-—

via Plautdietsch Baunt

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1PlautdietschBauntband, cord
Every word from Proto-Indo-European mot- →