Where does “פּריזמע” come from?

פּריזמע (Yiddish) comes from Russian при́зма, from Latin prisma, from Ancient Greek πρίσμα, from Ancient Greek -μᾰ, from Proto-Indo-European -mn̥ — Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs.

פּריזמע (Yiddish): prism

Definitions

  1. prism

Ancestry of “פּריזמע”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Russianпри́змаprism
2Latinprismaprism
3Ancient GreekπρίσμαAnything sawn, sawdust; A prism
4Ancient Greek-μᾰ"suffix forming a noun denoting the result of an...
5Proto-Indo-European-mn̥Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -mn̥ →Every word from Ancient Greek -μᾰ →Every word from Ancient Greek πρίσμα →