Where does “travlhed” come from?
travlhed (Danish) comes from Danish travl, from French travail, from Middle French travail, from Old French travail, from Old French travailler, from Vulgar Latin tripaliare, from Latin tripalium, from Latin tripālis — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.
travlhed (Danish): busyness being busy
Definitions
- busyness being busy
Ancestry of “travlhed”, step by step
travlhed traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Danish travl
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danish | travl | busy (doing a great deal; engaged) |
| 2 | French | travail | work; labor; job; workplace |
| 3 | Middle French | travail | suffering; pain |
| 4 | Old French | travail | suffering, torment |
| 5 | Old French | travailler | Alternative form of traveillier; to suffer; to... |
| 6 | Vulgar Latin | tripaliare | to work; present active infinitive of *tripaliō |
| 7 | Latin | tripalium | torture instrument; a torture instrument |
| 8 | Latin | tripālis | that has, or is prop up by, three stake or pale |
| 9 | Latin | -ium | Suffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes... |
| 10 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |