Where does “fejlkilde” come from?
fejlkilde (Danish) comes from Danish fejl, from Middle Low German feil, from French faille, from French faillir, from Middle French faillir, from Old French falir, from Vulgar Latin fallire, from Latin fallō — to bend; to lie, deceive.
fejlkilde (Danish): something that causes the result of an experiment...
Definitions
- something that causes the result of an experiment...
Ancestry of “fejlkilde”, step by step
fejlkilde traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Danish fejl
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danish | fejl | wrong; wrongly, erroneously, mis-; mistake, error |
| 2 | Middle Low German | feil | — |
| 3 | French | faille | fault; flaw; third-person singular present... |
| 4 | French | faillir | to almost do something; to fail; to go bankrupt |
| 5 | Middle French | faillir | to fail |
| 6 | Old French | falir | to fail; to err; to make a mistake |
| 7 | Vulgar Latin | fallire | — |
| 8 | Latin | fallō | to deceive, beguile, trick, cheat, delude, ensnare, disappoint |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵʰwel- | to bend; to lie, deceive |