Where does “feilmelding” come from?
feilmelding (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål feil, from Middle Low German feil, from French faille, from French faillir, from Middle French faillir, from Old French falir, from Vulgar Latin fallire, from Latin fallō — to bend; to lie, deceive.
feilmelding (Norwegian Bokmål): an error message
Definitions
- an error message
Ancestry of “feilmelding”, step by step
feilmelding traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Bokmål feil
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | feil | wrong; error, mistake |
| 2 | Middle Low German | feil | — |
| 3 | French | faille | fault; flaw; third-person singular present... |
| 4 | French | faillir | to almost do something; to fail; to go bankrupt |
| 5 | Middle French | faillir | to fail |
| 6 | Old French | falir | to fail; to err; to make a mistake |
| 7 | Vulgar Latin | fallire | — |
| 8 | Latin | fallō | to deceive, beguile, trick, cheat, delude, ensnare, disappoint |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵʰwel- | to bend; to lie, deceive |
via Norwegian Bokmål melding
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | melding | the act of reporting; message, report; review,... |
| 2 | Norwegian Bokmål | melde | to announce, report, notify |
| 3 | Middle Low German | melden | to betray |
| 4 | Old Saxon | meldōn | — |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | melþōn | to specify; point out; show; to inform; divulge;... |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | *melþōną | — |