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Where does “dybdeskarphet” come from?

dybdeskarphet (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål skarphet, from Swedish -het, from Old Swedish -het, from Middle Low German -heit, from Old Saxon -hed, from Proto-West Germanic -haidu, from Proto-Germanic haiduz, from Proto-Indo-European (s)kayt-.

dybdeskarphet (Norwegian Bokmål): depth of field

Definitions

  1. depth of field

Ancestry of “dybdeskarphet”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Norwegian Bokmålskarphetsharpness
2Swedish-hetProductive suffix giving an adjective a nounal...
3Old Swedish-het—
4Middle Low German-heit—
5Old Saxon-hedforming nouns of condition or quality, from nouns...
6Proto-West Germanic-haidu—
7Proto-Germanichaiduzmanner, way; personality, character; appearance
8Proto-Indo-European(s)kayt-—
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