Where does “folkedanser” come from?
folkedanser (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål folkedans, from Norwegian Bokmål folk, from Danish folk, from English folk, from German volk, from Middle High German volc, from Old High German folc, from Proto-West Germanic folk — to fill.
folkedanser (Norwegian Bokmål): a folk dancer; indefinite plural of folkedans
Definitions
- a folk dancer; indefinite plural of folkedans
Ancestry of “folkedanser”, step by step
folkedanser traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Bokmål folkedans
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | folkedans | a folk dance; folk dancing |
| 2 | Norwegian Bokmål | folk | a people; people in general; folk |
| 3 | Danish | folk | people; men; crew |
| 4 | English | folk | Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land,... |
| 5 | German | volk | people, nation, folk, tribe, race group united by culture, history, descent, and/or language |
| 6 | Middle High German | volc | — |
| 7 | Old High German | folc | folk; people collectively, nation; people, nation |
| 8 | Proto-West Germanic | folk | people, tribe |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | fulką | people; tribe |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | pleh₁- | to fill |
via Norwegian Bokmål er
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | er | present of være |