Where does “egenundersøkelse” come from?
egenundersøkelse (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål undersøkelse, from Norwegian Bokmål -else, from Danish -else, from Danish -ilse, from Old Saxon -isli, from Proto-West Germanic -islī, from Proto-West Germanic -ī, from Proto-Germanic -į̄ — Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...
egenundersøkelse (Norwegian Bokmål): self-examination
Definitions
- self-examination
Ancestry of “egenundersøkelse”, step by step
egenundersøkelse traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Bokmål undersøkelse
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | undersøkelse | an examination; an investigation; a survey |
| 2 | Norwegian Bokmål | -else | added to a verb to form a noun for an action or... |
| 3 | Danish | -else | added to a verb to form a noun for an action or... |
| 4 | Danish | -ilse | — |
| 5 | Old Saxon | -isli | — |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | -islī | Used to form nouns from verbs denoting something... |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | -ī | -ness, -th |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | -į̄ | -th |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -íh₂ | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -h₂ | Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups... |