Where does “bankboks” come from?
bankboks (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål bank, from Norwegian Bokmål banke, from Norwegian Bokmål bakke, from English back, from French bac, from French baccalauréat, from Medieval Latin baccalaureatus, from Latin baccalaureus — Suffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes...
bankboks (Norwegian Bokmål): a safe-deposit box
Definitions
- a safe-deposit box
Ancestry of “bankboks”, step by step
bankboks traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Bokmål bank
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | bank | a bank; a beat, knock, throb; imperative of banke |
| 2 | Norwegian Bokmål | banke | a bank; to knock; to hammer |
| 3 | Norwegian Bokmål | bakke | a hill or slope; the ground; to back |
| 4 | English | back | Near the rear; Not current; Far from the main... |
| 5 | French | bac | ferry; vat; high school exit exam in France; A... |
| 6 | French | baccalauréat | baccalaureat; bachelor's degree |
| 7 | Medieval Latin | baccalaureatus | bachelor's degree |
| 8 | Latin | baccalaureus | bachelor |
| 9 | Latin | laurea | laurel, bay tree; crown, wreath or branch of... |
| 10 | Latin | laurus | laurel tree; laurels; a crown of laurel |
| 11 | English | -aceous | Of, relating to, resembling or containing the... |
| 12 | Latin | -āceus | aceous; resembling, having the nature of, forming, belonging to |
| 13 | Latin | -āx | ish, -y |
| 14 | Latin | -ium | Suffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes... |
via Norwegian Bokmål boks
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | boks | a box; a can, or tin; imperative of bokse |
| 2 | English | box | Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or... |
| 3 | French | boxer | boxer; boxer shorts, boxers; to box |
| 4 | French | -er | Forms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs |
| 5 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 6 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 7 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 8 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 13 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |