Where does “armbåndsur” come from?
armbåndsur (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål armbånd, from Norwegian Bokmål bånd, from Danish bånd, from English band, from German band, from French bande, from French là, from Italian là.
armbåndsur (Norwegian Bokmål): a wristwatch
Ancestry of “armbåndsur”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | armbånd | a bracelet |
| 2 | Norwegian Bokmål | bånd | tape; ribbon; band |
| 3 | Danish | bånd | tape; ribbon; band |
| 4 | English | band | A strip of material used for strengthening or... |
| 5 | German | band | past of binden |
| 6 | French | bande | band, strip; stripe; strip |
| 7 | French | là | there; here, present |
| 8 | Italian | là | there |
| 9 | Spanish | la | the; accusative of ella, ello , and usted ; her,... |
| 10 | Portuguese | lá | there; used with an adverb phrase to indicate... |
| 11 | German | a | Alternative form of A; Abbreviation of a-Moll;... |
| 12 | German | a-Moll | A-minor |
| 13 | Hungarian | a | the; this; that |
| 14 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 15 | Latin | Ad | — |
| 16 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 17 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 18 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 19 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | — |