Where does “vaniljekrans” come from?

vaniljekrans (Danish) comes from Danish vanilje, from French vanille, from Spanish vainilla, from Spanish -illa, from Old Spanish -iella, from Latin -ella, from Latin -ellus, from Latin -ulus — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

vaniljekrans (Danish): a circular cookie containing vanilla

Definitions

  1. a circular cookie containing vanilla

Ancestry of “vaniljekrans”, step by step

vaniljekrans traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Danish vanilje

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1DanishvaniljeVanilla a taxonomic genus within the family
2Frenchvanillevanilla
3Spanishvainillavanilla; vanilla sex; ladyfinger
4Spanish-illaAdded to feminine nouns to denote a diminutive...
5Old Spanish-iellaA diminutive suffix
6Latin-ellainflection of -ellus: ## nominative/vocative...
7Latin-ellusAlternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine...
8Latin-ulusUsed to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating...
9Proto-Italic-olos
10Proto-Italic-elosForms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns
11Proto-Indo-European-e-lós
12Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots

via Danish krans

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Danishkranswreath; garland; sprocket
2Old Norsekranz
3Middle Low Germankranz
4Middle High GermanKranz
5Old High Germankranz
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -lós
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