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Where does “beslutningstaker” come from?

beslutningstaker (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål -taker, from Norwegian Bokmål -tager, from Norwegian Bokmål tage, from Norwegian Bokmål -er, from Danish -er, from Old Norse -ari, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios.

beslutningstaker (Norwegian Bokmål): a decision maker

Definitions

  1. a decision maker

Ancestry of “beslutningstaker”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Norwegian Bokmål-takeradded to words to indicate someone who takes
2Norwegian Bokmål-tager—
3Norwegian Bokmåltage—
4Norwegian Bokmål-erperson or thing that does an action indicated by...
5Danish-erForms agent nouns from verbs, with the sense...
6Old Norse-aria suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs;...
7Latin-ārius—
8Proto-Italic*-āzios—
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