Where does “forrykthed” come from?
forrykthed (Danish) comes from Danish forrykt, from German verrückt, from German verrücken, from German rücken, from Middle High German rücken, from Old High German rucchen, from Proto-Germanic *rukkijan, from Proto-Germanic rukkijaną — he, she.
forrykthed (Danish): madness, insanity, lunacy
Definitions
- madness, insanity, lunacy
Ancestry of “forrykthed”, step by step
forrykthed traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Danish forrykt
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danish | forrykt | crazy, insane, mad, deranged |
| 2 | German | verrückt | crazy, mad; inflection of verrücken: ##... |
| 3 | German | verrücken | to shift |
| 4 | German | rücken | to move, to push; to move over |
| 5 | Middle High German | rücken | — |
| 6 | Old High German | rucchen | — |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | *rukkijan | — |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | rukkijaną | to pull, to tug; to rock |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | -janą | Derives denominatives from nouns and factitives... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 12 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |