Where does “fødselsdagskage” come from?

fødselsdagskage (Danish) comes from Danish fødselsdag, from Danish fødsel, from Danish -sel, from Old English -els, from Proto-West Germanic -islī, from Proto-West Germanic -ī, from Proto-Germanic -į̄, from Proto-Indo-European -íh₂ — Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...

fødselsdagskage (Danish): birthday cake

Definitions

  1. birthday cake

Ancestry of “fødselsdagskage”, step by step

fødselsdagskage traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Danish fødselsdag

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Danishfødselsdagbirthday
2Danishfødselbirth; delivery
3Danish-selForms nouns from verbs with the sense of "the act...
4Old English-elssuffix creating nouns from verbs
5Proto-West Germanic-islīUsed to form nouns from verbs denoting something...
6Proto-West Germanic-ness, -th
7Proto-Germanic-į̄-th
8Proto-Indo-European-íh₂
9Proto-Indo-European-h₂Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...

via Danish kage

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Danishkagecake
2Old Danishkakæ
3Old Norsekakacake
4Proto-Germanickakǭcake
5Proto-Indo-Europeangōg-round, ball-shaped object; lump; clump
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -h₂Every word from Proto-Germanic -į̄Every word from Danish -sel
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