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Where does “viðskeyttur greinir” come from?

viðskeyttur greinir (Icelandic) comes from Icelandic greinir, from Icelandic grein, from Old Norse grein, from Proto-Germanic grainō.

viðskeyttur greinir (Icelandic): a suffixed, postfixed article or enclitic...

Definitions

  1. a suffixed, postfixed article or enclitic...

Ancestry of “viðskeyttur greinir”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Icelandicgreinirarticle
2Icelandicgreinbranch; article, piece; subject, field
3Old Norsegreinbranch; point, head, part; cause, reason
4Proto-Germanicgrainō—
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