Where does “fremmedlegeme” come from?
fremmedlegeme (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål fremmed, from Middle Low German vremede, from Old Saxon fremithi, from Proto-West Germanic framiþī, from Proto-Germanic framaþiz, from Swedish fram, from Old Norse fram, from Proto-Germanic fram — passed , crossed.
fremmedlegeme (Norwegian Bokmål): a foreign body
Definitions
- a foreign body
Ancestry of “fremmedlegeme”, step by step
fremmedlegeme traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Bokmål fremmed
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | fremmed | foreign; alien |
| 2 | Middle Low German | vremede | — |
| 3 | Old Saxon | fremithi | foreign, strange |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | framiþī | foreign, strange |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | framaþiz | foreign, alien, strange |
| 6 | Swedish | fram | forward, in front |
| 7 | Old Norse | fram | forward, forth |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | fram | from; by, due to; forth, forward |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | framaz | forward, prominent |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | prom- | forth, forward |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | por- | to give birth; forward, through; going, passage |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |
via Norwegian Bokmål legeme
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | legeme | a body; also a body in other senses |
| 2 | Danish | legeme | body; field |
| 3 | Old Norse | líkhamr | body |
| 4 | Old Norse | lík | leechline; body; leech |
| 5 | Middle Low German | līk | — |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | līką | body; corpse, dead body; leech-line, bolt-rope |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | leyǵ- | to bind, tie |