Etymology

gadgetbahn

gad·get·bahn
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Today it means: A public transportation scheme based on modern technology which is regarded to be infeasible or unnecessary. Full definition →

German Bahn ← Middle High German ban ← Old High German *bana
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The story

  1. Englishgadget
  2. Proto-Indo-European*gʷʰen-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*gʷʰon-eh₂
  4. Proto-Germanic*banō
  5. Proto-West Germanic*banu
  6. Old High German*bana
  7. Middle High Germanban
  8. GermanBahn
  9. English todaygadgetbahn

From gadget + German Bahn (“rail transport, train, tram”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.