Where does “handknattleiksþjálfari” come from?
handknattleiksþjálfari (Icelandic) comes from Icelandic handknattleikur, from Icelandic leikur, from Old Norse leikr, from Middle Low German lek, from Latin lāicus, from Ancient Greek λαϊκός, from Ancient Greek λᾱός, from Proto-Hellenic lāwós — to bark, howl; to be concealed.
handknattleiksþjálfari (Icelandic): handball coach
Definitions
- handball coach
Ancestry of “handknattleiksþjálfari”, step by step
handknattleiksþjálfari traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Icelandic handknattleikur
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Icelandic | handknattleikur | handball |
| 2 | Icelandic | leikur | playing, play; a game; a match, a game |
| 3 | Old Norse | leikr | game; sport; contest |
| 4 | Middle Low German | lek | — |
| 5 | Latin | lāicus | lay (of the laity) |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | λαϊκός | of the people; popular |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | λᾱός | people; men; the people |
| 8 | Proto-Hellenic | lāwós | people, crowd |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | leh₂wos | people |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | leh₂- | to bark, howl; to be concealed |
via Icelandic þjálfari
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Icelandic | þjálfari | coach, trainer |
| 2 | Icelandic | -arí | er, -or; a masculine suffix used to form agent nouns from verb and noun stems |
| 3 | Old Norse | -ari | a suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs;... |
| 4 | Latin | -ārius | er |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | *-āzios | Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals) |