Where does “gressløk” come from?
gressløk (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål løk, from Norwegian Bokmål lokomotiv, from English locomotive, from French locomotif, from Vulgar Latin motivus, from Latin motus, from Latin movere, from Latin moveo — to move.
gressløk (Norwegian Bokmål): chives
Ancestry of “gressløk”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | løk | an onion |
| 2 | Norwegian Bokmål | lokomotiv | a locomotive |
| 3 | English | locomotive | The power unit of a train that pulls the coaches... |
| 4 | French | locomotif | locomotive |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | motivus | moving; stirred; moved |
| 6 | Latin | motus | moved, stirred, disturbed, having been moved;... |
| 7 | Latin | movere | present active infinitive of moveō; second-person... |
| 8 | Latin | moveo | I move, stir, set in motion; I disturb, shake,... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | moweō | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | mew- | to move |