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
- rosemaling
Ancestry of “rosemaling”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | rosemaling | rosemaling |
| 2 | Norwegian Bokmål | måling | measurement |
| 3 | Norwegian Bokmål | måle | to measure |
| 4 | Norwegian Bokmål | mål | language, dialect; aim, goal, purpose, target,... |
| 5 | Dutch | mal | mold, cast; foolish, crazy, lacking common sense |
| 6 | Old French | mole | — |
| 7 | Latin | modulus | a small measure or interval; a module; a water... |
| 8 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |