Where does “Arjäng” come from?
Arjäng (French) comes from Swedish Årjäng, from Swedish å, from Swedish och, from Old Swedish ock, from Old Norse ok, from Old Norse svá, from Proto-Germanic swa, from Proto-Germanic swē — self (reflexive pronoun).
Ancestry of “Arjäng”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | Årjäng | — |
| 2 | Swedish | å | a river, a creek, a big stream; on |
| 3 | Swedish | och | and; used to connect two homogeneous words or... |
| 4 | Old Swedish | ock | — |
| 5 | Old Norse | ok | and; also, too; yoke |
| 6 | Old Norse | svá | so |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | swa | so, thus, in this manner |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | swē | like, similar to; just like, in the same manner... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | swē | self (reflexive pronoun) |