Where does “eventyr” come from?
eventyr (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Danish eventyr, from Old Norse æfintýr, from Middle Low German êventü̂re, from Old French aventure, from Vulgar Latin adventura, from Late Latin adventurus, from Latin adventus, from Latin adveniō — in.
eventyr (Norwegian Bokmål): an adventure; fairy tale; something exceptionally...
Definitions
- an adventure; fairy tale; something exceptionally...
Ancestry of “eventyr”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Danish | eventyr | adventure; fairy tale, folktale |
| 2 | Old Norse | æfintýr | — |
| 3 | Middle Low German | êventü̂re | — |
| 4 | Old French | aventure | — |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | adventura | — |
| 6 | Late Latin | adventurus | adventure; about to arrive; an adventure |
| 7 | Latin | adventus | arrival, approach, advent; Advent |
| 8 | Latin | adveniō | — |
| 9 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 10 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 11 | Latin | în | — |
| 12 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |