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 — that.
armbåndsur (Norwegian Bokmål): a wristwatch
Definitions
- a wristwatch
Ancestry of “armbåndsur”, step by step
armbåndsur traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Bokmål armbånd
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | feminine singular definite article; the |
| 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 | toward, to |
| 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 | that |
via Norwegian Bokmål ur
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | ur | a clock or watch |
| 2 | Middle Low German | ūr | watch, clock |
| 3 | Middle Dutch | ūre | hour |
| 4 | Old Dutch | ūra | — |
| 5 | Old French | houre | hour; time; moment to do something |
| 6 | Latin | hōra | hour |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | ὥρα | any defined period of time; season; climate |
| 8 | Proto-Hellenic | *worā | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | wēr- | true |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | wer- | to burn; to cover, heed, notice; squirrel |