Where does “צוויייִק” come from?

צוויייִק (Yiddish) comes 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.

צוויייִק (Yiddish): binary

Definitions

  1. binary

Ancestry of “צוויייִק”, step by step

צוויייִק traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Yiddish ־יק

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

via Yiddish צוויי

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Yiddishצווייtwo
2Old High Germanzwēnetwo
3Proto-West Germanictwai-two
4Proto-Germanictwaitwo
5Proto-Indo-Europeandwóh₁two

Words derived from “צוויייִק”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ḱos →Every word from Proto-Germanic -gaz →Every word from Proto-West Germanic -g →