Where does “bekender” come from?

bekender (Danish) comes from Danish -er, from Old Norse -ari, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).

bekender (Danish): confessor

Definitions

  1. confessor

Ancestry of “bekender”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Danish-erForms agent nouns from verbs, with the sense...
2Old Norse-aria suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs;...
3Latin-āriuser
4Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)
Every word from Proto-Italic *-āzios →Every word from Latin -ārius →Every word from Danish -er →