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Where does “šraubncijer” come from?

šraubncijer (Serbo-Croatian) comes from German Schraubenzieher, from German -er, from Old High German -āri, from Proto-West Germanic -ārī, from Proto-Germanic -ārijaz, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios.

šraubncijer (Serbo-Croatian): screwdriver

Definitions

  1. screwdriver

Ancestry of “šraubncijer”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanSchraubenzieherscrewdriver
2German-erForms agent nouns etc. from verbs, suffixed to...
3Old High German-āri—
4Proto-West Germanic-ārī-er
5Proto-Germanic-ārijaz-er
6Latin-ārius—
7Proto-Italic*-āzios—
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