Where does “adgangsbillet” come from?
adgangsbillet (Danish) comes from Danish billet, from French billet, from Old French billette, from Old French bille, from Vulgar Latin billia, from Gaulish bilia, from Proto-Celtic belyom, from Proto-Indo-European bʰolh₃yom.
adgangsbillet (Danish): admission ticket, entry ticket
Definitions
- admission ticket, entry ticket
Ancestry of “adgangsbillet”, step by step
adgangsbillet traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Danish billet
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danish | billet | ticket |
| 2 | French | billet | ticket; note, a brief message; banknote |
| 3 | Old French | billette | billet |
| 4 | Old French | bille | stick; baton; written decree, announcement |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | billia | — |
| 6 | Gaulish | bilia | tall tree |
| 7 | Proto-Celtic | belyom | tree |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰolh₃yom | leaf |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰleh₃- | bloom, flower |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |
via Danish adgang
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danish | adgang | access, permission, entry |
| 2 | Danish | åd | past tense of æde |
| 3 | Old Danish | at | — |
| 4 | Old Norse | át | the act of eating; food; first-person singular... |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | at | at, toward, to |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | ētą | the act of eating; food |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | etaną | to eat |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁édti | to eat |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁ed- | to eat |