Where does “sjálfsmorðssprengjuárás” come from?
sjálfsmorðssprengjuárás (Icelandic) comes from Icelandic sjálfsmorð, from Danish selvmord, from German Selbstmord, from German mord, from Middle High German mort, from Old High German mord, from Old English morþ, from Old Norse morð — to die; to disappear; sea, lake, wetland.
sjálfsmorðssprengjuárás (Icelandic): suicide bombing
Definitions
- suicide bombing
Ancestry of “sjálfsmorðssprengjuárás”, step by step
sjálfsmorðssprengjuárás traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Icelandic sjálfsmorð
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Icelandic | sjálfsmorð | suicide, the act of killing oneself |
| 2 | Danish | selvmord | suicide |
| 3 | German | Selbstmord | suicide |
| 4 | German | mord | murder |
| 5 | Middle High German | mort | — |
| 6 | Old High German | mord | murder |
| 7 | Old English | morþ | death, crime; murder |
| 8 | Old Norse | morð | murder |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | murþą | death; killing, murder |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | mr̥tós | dead; mortal |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | mer- | to die; to disappear; sea, lake, wetland |
via Icelandic sprengjuárás
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Icelandic | sprengjuárás | bomb attack, bombing |
| 2 | Icelandic | sprengja | a bomb; to blow up; to detonate |
| 3 | Old Norse | sprengja | — |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | sprangijaną | to cause to spring; to cause to burst, to blow up |
| 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 |