Where does “åfløy” come from?
åfløy (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål å, from Swedish å, from Swedish och, from Old Swedish ock, from Old Norse ok, from Old Norse svá, from Proto-Germanic swa, from Proto-Germanic swē — self (reflexive pronoun).
åfløy (Norwegian Bokmål): a small flat-bottomed boat used as a ferry
Definitions
- a small flat-bottomed boat used as a ferry
Ancestry of “åfløy”, step by step
åfløy traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Bokmål å
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | å | to; To express different emotions, oh; Used to... |
| 2 | Swedish | å | a river, a creek, a big stream; on |
| 3 | Swedish | och | and; used to connect two homogeneous words or... |
| 4 | Old Swedish | ock | — |
| 5 | Old Norse | ok | and; also, too; yoke |
| 6 | Old Norse | svá | so |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | swa | so, thus, in this manner |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | swē | like, similar to; just like, in the same manner... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | swē | self (reflexive pronoun) |