Where does “forstillelse” come from?
forstillelse (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål forstille, from Norwegian Bokmål stille, from Old Norse stilla, from Middle Low German stillen, from Old Saxon stillian, from Proto-West Germanic stillijan, from Proto-West Germanic -jan, from Proto-Germanic -janą — he, she.
forstillelse (Norwegian Bokmål): simulation, sham; shamming; dissimulation,...
Definitions
- simulation, sham; shamming; dissimulation,...
Ancestry of “forstillelse”, step by step
forstillelse traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Bokmål forstille
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | forstille | to pretend, feign |
| 2 | Norwegian Bokmål | stille | silent; still; quiet |
| 3 | Old Norse | stilla | to calm |
| 4 | Middle Low German | stillen | — |
| 5 | Old Saxon | stillian | — |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | stillijan | to make still, quiet |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | -jan | Creates denominative verbs from nouns; Creates... |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | -janą | Derives denominatives from nouns and factitives... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 11 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |