Where does “merkingarleysi” come from?
merkingarleysi (Icelandic) comes from Icelandic merking, from Icelandic merkja, from Old Norse merkja, from Proto-Germanic markijaną, from Proto-Germanic -janą, from Proto-Indo-European -yéti, from Proto-Indo-European yé-, from Chichewa iye — he, she.
merkingarleysi (Icelandic): meaninglessness
Definitions
- meaninglessness
Ancestry of “merkingarleysi”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Icelandic | merking | meaning, sense; marking, labelling |
| 2 | Icelandic | merkja | to mark, label; to notice; to mean, signify |
| 3 | Old Norse | merkja | — |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | markijaną | to mark; to perceive, notice |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | -janą | Derives denominatives from nouns and factitives... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 8 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |