Where does “filologi” come from?
filologi (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Ancient Greek φιλολογία, from Ancient Greek φιλόλογος, from Ancient Greek -λόγος, from Ancient Greek -ός, from Proto-Hellenic *-os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
filologi (Norwegian Bokmål): philology
Ancestry of “filologi”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Ancient Greek | φιλολογία | love of reasoning; love of learning, love of... |
| 2 | Ancient Greek | φιλόλογος | that loves to speak, loquacious; loving logic;... |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | -λόγος | word, speech; one who speaks; word, knowledge,... |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | -ός | — |
| 5 | Proto-Hellenic | *-os | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -ós | Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting... |