Where does “ævintýri” come from?
ævintýri (Icelandic) comes from Middle Low German êventü̂re, from Old French aventure, from Vulgar Latin adventura, from Late Latin adventurus, from Latin adventus, from Latin adveniō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn- — in.
ævintýri (Icelandic): adventure; fairy tale
Definitions
- adventure; fairy tale
Ancestry of “ævintýri”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle Low German | êventü̂re | a noteworthy event |
| 2 | Old French | aventure | event, happening, adventure |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | adventura | — |
| 4 | Late Latin | adventurus | adventure; about to arrive; an adventure |
| 5 | Latin | adventus | arrival, approach, advent; Advent |
| 6 | Latin | adveniō | to come to, to arrive |
| 7 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 8 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 9 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 10 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |