Where does “פֿרומקייט” come from?

פֿרומקייט (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.

פֿרומקייט (Yiddish): piety

Definitions

  1. piety

Ancestry of “פֿרומקייט”, step by step

פֿרומקייט traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Yiddish ־קייט

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Yiddish־קייט-ness; -ity; -hood; -ship
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 פֿרום

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Yiddishפֿרוםreligious; pious; observant, Orthodox, frum
2Middle High Germanvrumeefficient, good, righteous
3Old High Germanfrumabenefit
4Proto-Germanicfrumôfirst
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ḱos →Every word from Proto-Germanic -gaz →Every word from Proto-West Germanic -g →