Etymograph

English

verboten

Verboten comes from German verboten ‘banned, forbidden, prohibited’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- ‘to be awake, be aware’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰewdʰ-‘to be awake, be aware’root as named
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*furibudanazreconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*furibodanreconstructed
  4. Old High Germanc. 750–1050firbotan
  5. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350verboten
  6. Germanc. 1650–presentsame form‘banned, forbidden, prohibited’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 2015same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰewdʰ-‘to be awake, be aware’root as named
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*furibudanazreconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*furibodanreconstructed
  4. Old High Germanc. 750–1050firbotan
  5. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350verboten
  6. Germanc. 1650–presentsame form‘banned, forbidden, prohibited’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 2015same form

Earliest quotation: 2015, Laura Kipnis, Sexual paranoia strikes academe: “Before that, students and professors could date whomever we…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- ‘to be awake, be aware’

body, bid, abode, bode, bede, beadle, 3 more

Today it means

adj (Strictly) forbidden or prohibited.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- / verboten

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