GMBH breakdown

• Gesellschaft: Company, society, or association, club, partnership

• mit: With.
• beschränkter: Limited , restricted, bounded, confined
• Haftung: Liability or legal responsibility.

Company With Limited  Liability  = LLC 

1. Gesellschaft (Company / Society)

• ge-: A prefix often used to group things together.
• Selle: An ancient word meaning "companion" or "roommate."
• -schaft: A suffix equivalent to "-ship", "-hood" eg like friendship
• Literal meaning: "The state of being companions sharing a space." Over time, this evolved to mean a structured group of people, a society, or a business company.

2. Beschränkter (Limited)

• be-: A prefix that turns a noun or adjective into an action directed at something.
• Schranke: A physical barrier, fence, boundary or gate.
• -er: A grammatical ending meaning "with" or "characterized by." , adjective inflection
• -t  : participle ending
• Literal meaning: "Put behind a barrier." In a business context, it means your legal liability is fenced in and cannot touch your personal assets

3. Haftung 

haft-: From the verb haften, which means "to stick," "to cling," or "to be attached" to something.

-ung: A standard German suffix that turns a verb into a noun. It is equivalent to "-ing" or "-tion" in English (e.g.,  warn >  warning).

Literal meaning: "The state of sticking to something" or "being held fast."