Where does “fremmedspråk” come from?
fremmedspråk (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.
fremmedspråk (Norwegian Bokmål): a foreign language
Ancestry of “fremmedspråk”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 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 |