Where does “flybillett” come from?
flybillett (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål billett, from French billet, from Old French billette, from Old French bille, from Vulgar Latin billia, from Gaulish bilia, from Proto-Celtic belyom, from Proto-Indo-European bʰolh₃yom.
flybillett (Norwegian Bokmål): air ticket, airline ticket, flight ticket, plane...
Definitions
- air ticket, airline ticket, flight ticket, plane...
Ancestry of “flybillett”, step by step
flybillett traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Bokmål billett
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | billett | a ticket |
| 2 | French | billet | ticket; note, a brief message; banknote |
| 3 | Old French | billette | billet |
| 4 | Old French | bille | stick; baton; written decree, announcement |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | billia | — |
| 6 | Gaulish | bilia | tall tree |
| 7 | Proto-Celtic | belyom | tree |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰolh₃yom | leaf |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰleh₃- | bloom, flower |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |