Where does “folkemengde” come from?
folkemengde (Norwegian Bokmål) comes 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, from Proto-Germanic fulką — to fill.
folkemengde (Norwegian Bokmål): a crowd; population
Definitions
- a crowd; population
Ancestry of “folkemengde”, step by step
folkemengde traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Bokmål folk
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | folk | a people; people in general; folk |
| 2 | Danish | folk | people; men; crew |
| 3 | English | folk | Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land,... |
| 4 | German | volk | people, nation, folk, tribe, race group united by culture, history, descent, and/or language |
| 5 | Middle High German | volc | — |
| 6 | Old High German | folc | folk; people collectively, nation; people, nation |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | folk | people, tribe |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | fulką | people; tribe |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | pleh₁- | to fill |
via Norwegian Bokmål mengde
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | mengde | great number, lots of, numerous; amount,... |
| 2 | Norwegian Bokmål | mang en | many a; One out of many, many; much, a lot; many,... |
| 3 | Norwegian Bokmål | én | stressed form of en |
| 4 | Old Norse | einn | one; some, a few |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | ainaz | one; some |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | óynos | one; single |