Where does “etterse” come from?
etterse (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål se, from Danish se, from Old Danish se, from Old Norse sjá, from Albanian sasi, from French châssis, from French châsse, from Middle French chasse — to seize, grab; to seize; take up; lift; to take,...
etterse (Norwegian Bokmål): to check, examine, inspect
Definitions
- to check, examine, inspect
Ancestry of “etterse”, step by step
etterse traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Bokmål se
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | se | to see |
| 2 | Danish | se | to see; to see each other |
| 3 | Old Danish | se | — |
| 4 | Old Norse | sjá | this, that; to see; first-person singular present... |
| 5 | Albanian | sasi | quantity; number |
| 6 | French | châssis | chassis, frame; window |
| 7 | French | châsse | reliquary; coffin |
| 8 | Middle French | chasse | — |
| 9 | Old French | chace | hunt; inflection of chacer: ## first/third-person... |
| 10 | Old French | chacier | to hunt, to go hunting |
| 11 | Latin | captiāre | to hunt |
| 12 | Latin | captus | captured, having been captured, seized, having... |
| 13 | Latin | capiō | to take, to capture, to catch, to seize, to take captive, to storm |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | kapiō | take |
| 15 | Proto-Italic | kapjō | take, seize |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | kh₂pyéti | — |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | keh₂p- | to seize, grab; to seize; take up; lift; to take,... |
via Norwegian Bokmål etter
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | etter | after |
| 2 | Old Norse | ettir | — |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | aftiri | more aft, further behind |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂epoteros | further behind, further away |