Where does “umedgørlighed” come from?
umedgørlighed (Danish) comes from Danish umedgørlig, from Danish medgørlig, from Swedish medgörlig, from Swedish -lig, from Old Swedish -līker, from Old Norse -ligr, from Proto-Germanic -līkaz, from Proto-Germanic līką — to bind, tie.
umedgørlighed (Danish): intransigence, intractability, inflexibility, uncooperativeness
Definitions
- intransigence, intractability, inflexibility, uncooperativeness
Ancestry of “umedgørlighed”, step by step
umedgørlighed traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Danish umedgørlig
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danish | umedgørlig | intransigent, intractable, unwieldy, stubborn |
| 2 | Danish | medgørlig | cooperative, compliant, tractable, amenable |
| 3 | Swedish | medgörlig | willing to go along with what someone wants; accommodating, compliant, tractable, cooperative |
| 4 | Swedish | -lig | -ly, -like; forms adjectives |
| 5 | Old Swedish | -līker | — |
| 6 | Old Norse | -ligr | suffix used to create adjectives, having the... |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | -līkaz | -like, -ly |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | līką | body; corpse, dead body; leech-line, bolt-rope |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | leyǵ- | to bind, tie |