Where does “hemmelighetsfull” come from?
hemmelighetsfull (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål hemmelighet, from Norwegian Bokmål hemmelig, from Danish hemmelig, from Old Norse heimiligr, from Middle Low German heimelik, from Old Saxon *hēmlīk, from Proto-West Germanic *haimalīk, from Proto-Germanic haimaz — to be lying down; to settle.
hemmelighetsfull (Norwegian Bokmål): secretive; mysterious
Definitions
- secretive; mysterious
Ancestry of “hemmelighetsfull”, step by step
hemmelighetsfull traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Bokmål hemmelighet
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | hemmelighet | a secret; secrecy |
| 2 | Norwegian Bokmål | hemmelig | secret |
| 3 | Danish | hemmelig | secret |
| 4 | Old Norse | heimiligr | — |
| 5 | Middle Low German | heimelik | — |
| 6 | Old Saxon | *hēmlīk | — |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | *haimalīk | homely, homey, domestic |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | haimaz | home; house; village |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóymos | of the home, belonging to the family; village,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱey- | to be lying down; to settle |