Where does “flammepunkt” come from?
flammepunkt (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål flamme, from German Flamme, from Middle High German vlamme, from Latin flamma, from Latin flāgrāre, from Latin frāgrō, from Proto-Italic frāgrāō, from Proto-Indo-European bʰreh₂gro- — to smell.
flammepunkt (Norwegian Bokmål): flash point or flashpoint
Definitions
- flash point or flashpoint
Ancestry of “flammepunkt”, step by step
flammepunkt traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Bokmål flamme
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | flamme | flame; to blaze, flame; flamme opp: to flare up,... |
| 2 | German | Flamme | flame |
| 3 | Middle High German | vlamme | — |
| 4 | Latin | flamma | flame, fire |
| 5 | Latin | flāgrāre | — |
| 6 | Latin | frāgrō | to emit a smell of, to smell of, to be redolent of, to reek of |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | frāgrāō | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰreh₂gro- | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰreh₂g- | to smell |
via Norwegian Bokmål punkt
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | punkt | point; a dot |
| 2 | Old Norse | punktr | — |
| 3 | Latin | pūnctum | point |
| 4 | Latin | punctus | pricked, punctured, pierced, having been pricked;... |
| 5 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |