Where does “אומצוויייִק” come from?

אומצוויייִק (Yiddish) comes from Yiddish צוויייִק, from Yiddish ־יק, from Middle High German -ec, from Old High German -ig, from Proto-West Germanic -g, from Proto-Germanic -gaz, from Proto-Indo-European -ḱos — -y, -ic.

אומצוויייִק (Yiddish): non-binary

Definitions

  1. non-binary

Ancestry of “אומצוויייִק”, step by step

אומצוויייִק traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Yiddish צוויייִק

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Yiddishצוויייִקbinary
2Yiddish־יק-y, -ic
3Middle High German-ec—
4Old High German-ig—
5Proto-West Germanic-gForms adjectives from nouns and verbs with a...
6Proto-Germanic-gaz-y
7Proto-Indo-European-ḱos-y, -ic

via Yiddish אומ־

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Yiddishאומ־un-, in-
2Old High Germanun-un-; prefix of negation, absence or contrariness
3Proto-West Germanicun-not, un-
4Proto-Germanicun-not, un-
5Proto-Indo-Europeann̥-not, un-
6Proto-Indo-Europeannenot
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ḱos →Every word from Proto-Germanic -gaz →Every word from Proto-West Germanic -g →