Where does “Rövarspråket” come from?
Rövarspråket (English) comes from Swedish rövarspråk, from Swedish rövare, from Swedish -are, from Old Swedish -are, from Old Norse -ari, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).
Rövarspråket (English): A type of wordplay that originated in Sweden in which the consonants of words are doubled, with the letter o inserted between them
Definitions
- A type of wordplay that originated in Sweden in which the consonants of words are doubled, with the letter o inserted between them
Ancestry of “Rövarspråket”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | rövarspråk | Rövarspråket |
| 2 | Swedish | rövare | a robber, someone who steals or loots |
| 3 | Swedish | -are | Regular construction of comparative: ful →... |
| 4 | Old Swedish | -are | a suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs; such as væriare, from væria |
| 5 | Old Norse | -ari | a suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs;... |
| 6 | Latin | -ārius | er |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *-āzios | Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals) |