Where does “underholdningsindustri” come from?
underholdningsindustri (Danish) comes from Danish industri, from French industrie, from Latin industria, from Latin industrius, from Latin struō, from Proto-Italic strowō, from Proto-Indo-European strew-, from Proto-Indo-European sterh₃- — sterile, infertile.
underholdningsindustri (Danish): entertainment industry
Definitions
- entertainment industry
Ancestry of “underholdningsindustri”, step by step
underholdningsindustri traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Danish industri
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danish | industri | industry |
| 2 | French | industrie | an industry, productive enterprise; a profession;... |
| 3 | Latin | industria | diligence, assiduousness; industry, activity;... |
| 4 | Latin | industrius | active, industrious, assiduous, diligent |
| 5 | Latin | struō | to place one thing on top of another, to pile up, join together |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | strowō | pile up; construct, build |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | strew- | to spread, to strew |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | sterh₃- | to spread, extend, stretch out |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ster- | sterile, infertile |
via Norwegian Bokmål underholdning
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | underholdning | entertainment |
| 2 | Norwegian Bokmål | underholde | to support, maintain; to amuse, entertain |
| 3 | Danish | under | under; underneath; below |
| 4 | Old Norse | undir | under, underneath |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | under | among, between; under, beneath; under |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁entér | between |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁en | in; in, inside |