köken: Back-formation from niederträchtig. Related with tragen in the archaic sense “to behave” (compare betragen). Not related with trachten (“to seek, strive”), though it may now be associated with it (“mean, base striving”, as it were).
köken: Etymology tree Latin indignus Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin indignitās From indignus + -tās.