Where does “פֿאַרשטענדלעכקייט” come from?
פֿאַרשטענדלעכקייט (Yiddish) comes from Yiddish ־קייט, 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.
פֿאַרשטענדלעכקייט (Yiddish): comprehensibility, intelligibility, understandability
Definitions
- comprehensibility, intelligibility, understandability
Ancestry of “פֿאַרשטענדלעכקייט”, step by step
פֿאַרשטענדלעכקייט traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Yiddish ־קייט
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yiddish | ־קייט | -ness; -ity; -hood; -ship |
| 2 | Yiddish | ־יק | -y, -ic |
| 3 | Middle High German | -ec | — |
| 4 | Old High German | -ig | — |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | -g | Forms adjectives from nouns and verbs with a... |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | -gaz | -y |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -ḱos | -y, -ic |
via Yiddish פֿאַרשטענדלעך
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yiddish | פֿאַרשטענדלעך | comprehensible, intelligible, understandable |
| 2 | Yiddish | ־לעך | -ly, -like; plural of ־ל |
| 3 | Middle High German | -lich | -ly |
| 4 | Old High German | -līh | — |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | *-līk | — |