Where does “livsforsikring” come from?
livsforsikring (Danish) comes from Danish forsikring, from Danish forsikre, from German versichern, from Italian assicurare, from Vulgar Latin *assēcūrāre, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în — in.
livsforsikring (Danish): life insurance
Ancestry of “livsforsikring”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Danish | forsikring | insurance; assurance |
| 2 | Danish | forsikre | to insure; to assure |
| 3 | German | versichern | to insure; to reassure, assure |
| 4 | Italian | assicurare | to assure, guarantee; to ensure, provide; to... |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | *assēcūrāre | — |
| 6 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 7 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 8 | Latin | în | — |
| 9 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |