Where does “dødsstilhed” come from?
dødsstilhed (Danish) comes from Danish stilhed, from Danish stille, from Old Norse stilla, from Middle Low German stillen, from Old Saxon stillian, from Proto-West Germanic stillijan, from Proto-West Germanic -jan, from Proto-Germanic -janą — he, she.
dødsstilhed (Danish): dead silence, complete silence
Definitions
- dead silence, complete silence
Ancestry of “dødsstilhed”, step by step
dødsstilhed traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Danish stilhed
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danish | stilhed | stillness, quiet, quietness, hush; calm; silence |
| 2 | Danish | stille | still; quiet; calm |
| 3 | Old Norse | stilla | to calm |
| 4 | Middle Low German | stillen | — |
| 5 | Old Saxon | stillian | — |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | stillijan | to make still, quiet |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | -jan | Creates denominative verbs from nouns; Creates... |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | -janą | Derives denominatives from nouns and factitives... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 11 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |