Where does “dødsskvadron” come from?
dødsskvadron (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål skvadron, from English squadron, from French escadron, from Italian squadrone, from Italian squadra, from Italian squadrare, from Vulgar Latin exquadra, from Latin ex — a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden...
dødsskvadron (Norwegian Bokmål): a death squad
Definitions
- a death squad
Ancestry of “dødsskvadron”, step by step
dødsskvadron traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Bokmål skvadron
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | skvadron | a squadron |
| 2 | English | squadron | Primarily, a square; hence, a square body of... |
| 3 | French | escadron | squadron |
| 4 | Italian | squadrone | squadron |
| 5 | Italian | squadra | set square, triangle; team, squad, group, side;... |
| 6 | Italian | squadrare | To delimit in a square or rectangular shape; to... |
| 7 | Vulgar Latin | exquadra | — |
| 8 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 9 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 10 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 11 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 16 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 17 | Middle Dutch | kitte | a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden... |