Where does “אומפּינקטלעך” come from?
אומפּינקטלעך (Yiddish) comes from Yiddish פּינקטלעך, from Yiddish פּונקט, from Latin pūnctum, from Latin punctus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.
אומפּינקטלעך (Yiddish): inaccurate, imprecise
Definitions
- inaccurate, imprecise
Ancestry of “אומפּינקטלעך”, step by step
אומפּינקטלעך traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Yiddish פּינקטלעך
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yiddish | פּינקטלעך | exact, precise |
| 2 | Yiddish | פּונקט | just, exactly, precisely, promptly, punctually;... |
| 3 | Latin | pūnctum | point |
| 4 | Latin | punctus | pricked, punctured, pierced, having been pricked;... |
| 5 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |