Where does “rosemaling” come from?

rosemaling (Dutch) comes from Norwegian Bokmål rosemaling, from Norwegian Bokmål måling, from Norwegian Bokmål måle, from Norwegian Bokmål mål, from Dutch mal, from Old French mole, from Latin modulus, from Latin -ulus — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

rosemaling (Dutch): rosemaling

Definitions

  1. rosemaling

Ancestry of “rosemaling”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Norwegian Bokmålrosemalingrosemaling
2Norwegian Bokmålmålingmeasurement
3Norwegian Bokmålmåleto measure
4Norwegian Bokmålmållanguage, dialect; aim, goal, purpose, target,...
5Dutchmalmold, cast; foolish, crazy, lacking common sense
6Old Frenchmole
7Latinmodulusa small measure or interval; a module; a water...
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
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -lósEvery word from Latin -ulusEvery word from Latin modulus