Etymograph

English

dauermodification

Dauermodification comes from German Dauer ‘duration’, and goes back to dauern.

  1. Germanc. 1650–presentdauern
  2. German, derivedc. 1650–presentDauer‘duration’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1979dauermodification

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history not traced here.

Lineage

  1. Germanc. 1650–presentdauern
  2. German, derivedc. 1650–presentDauer‘duration’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1979dauermodification

Earliest quotation: 1979, J. C. Sanford, R. E. Hanneman: “Cytoplasmic inheritance or dauermodification are considered the most likely…”

Every English word from German dauern

Today it means

noun The persistence of an abnormal characteristic – generally an environmentally induced trait – over several generations of the organism. Such characteristics are inherited through the cytoplasm and tend to disappear after a few generations.

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Etymograph / German dauern / dauermodification

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