Where does “eventyr” come from?
eventyr (Danish) comes from Old Norse æfintýr, from Middle Low German êventü̂re, from Old French aventure, from Vulgar Latin adventura, from Late Latin adventurus, from Latin adventus, from Latin adveniō, from Latin ad- — in.
eventyr (Danish): adventure; fairy tale, folktale
Definitions
- adventure; fairy tale, folktale
Ancestry of “eventyr”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old Norse | æfintýr | — |
| 2 | Middle Low German | êventü̂re | a noteworthy event |
| 3 | Old French | aventure | event, happening, adventure |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | adventura | — |
| 5 | Late Latin | adventurus | adventure; about to arrive; an adventure |
| 6 | Latin | adventus | arrival, approach, advent; Advent |
| 7 | Latin | adveniō | to come to, to arrive |
| 8 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 9 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 10 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 11 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |