Where does “ספּעציאַליסטקע” come from?

ספּעציאַליסטקע (Yiddish) comes from Yiddish ספּעציאַליסט, from French spécialiste, from Latin specialis, from Latin speciēs, from Latin speciō, from Proto-Italic spekjō, from Proto-Indo-European spéḱyeti, from Proto-Indo-European speḱ- — to see, to look, to observe.

ספּעציאַליסטקע (Yiddish): female specialist

Definitions

  1. female specialist

Ancestry of “ספּעציאַליסטקע”, step by step

ספּעציאַליסטקע traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Yiddish ספּעציאַליסט

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Yiddishספּעציאַליסטspecialist
2Frenchspécialistespecialist
3Latinspecialisspecific
4Latinspeciēsseeing, view, look
5Latinspeciōto observe, watch, look at
6Proto-Italicspekjōto observe, to see
7Proto-Indo-Europeanspéḱyetito be looking at, to keep looking at
8Proto-Indo-Europeanspeḱ-to see, to look, to observe

via Yiddish ־קע

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Yiddish־קעForms feminine derivatives of animate nouns;...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European speḱ-Every word from Proto-Indo-European spéḱyetiEvery word from Proto-Italic spekjō