English

Kulturwort

Kulturwort comes from German Kulturwort.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

A compound of Kultur ‘culture’ + Wort ‘word’

Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- ‘to move, to turn (around), to revolve around, and therefore to sojourn, to dwell’

Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁eti

Proto-Italic *kʷelō ‘to inhabit’

Latin colō ‘to till, cultivate’

Latin cultūra ‘care, cultivation’

German Kultur ‘culture’

Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰom ‘word’

Proto-Germanic *wurdą ‘word’

Proto-West Germanic *word ‘word’

Old High German wort ‘word’

Middle High German wort ‘word’

German Wort ‘word’

Every English word from German Kulturwort

noun A word borrowed among many languages denoting a cross-cultural concept.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.