Where does “Punkt” come from?

Punkt (Plautdietsch) comes from Middle Low German punct, from Latin pūnctum, from Latin punctus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

Punkt (Plautdietsch): dot, point, jot

Definitions

  1. dot, point, jot

Ancestry of “Punkt”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Low Germanpunct—
2Latinpūnctumpoint
3Latinpunctuspricked, punctured, pierced, having been pricked;...
4Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
5Proto-Italic-tus—
6Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

Words derived from “Punkt”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →