Where does “laboratorievægt” come from?
laboratorievægt (Danish) comes from Danish laboratorium, from Medieval Latin laboratorium, from Latin labotatorius, from Latin laborator, from Latin laboratus, from Latin laboro, from Latin labor, from Old Latin labos — fox.
laboratorievægt (Danish): a weight used in a laboratory
Definitions
- a weight used in a laboratory
Ancestry of “laboratorievægt”, step by step
laboratorievægt traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Danish laboratorium
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danish | laboratorium | laboratory |
| 2 | Medieval Latin | laboratorium | laboratory |
| 3 | Latin | labotatorius | laborable |
| 4 | Latin | laborator | plowman, tiller of the soil |
| 5 | Latin | laboratus | produced, having been produced |
| 6 | Latin | laboro | I toil, labor; I endeavor, strive; I suffer, am... |
| 7 | Latin | labor | work; labour, toil; hardship, trouble, fatigue,... |
| 8 | Old Latin | labos | — |
| 9 | Romanian | labă | palm; paw |
| 10 | Hungarian | láb | leg; foot; support, stand |
| 11 | Proto-Uralic | luwe | bone |
| 12 | Proto-Iranian | *Hrawpācáh | fox |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | *Hrawpāćás | fox |
via Danish vægt
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danish | vægt | weight; scales; Libra |
| 2 | Old Danish | wict | — |
| 3 | Middle Low German | wicht | — |
| 4 | Old Saxon | wiht | creature, person, thing, being |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | wihti | thing, creature; weight |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | wihtiz | essence, being; thing, creature; weight |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | weǵʰ- | to bring; to transport |