Where does “hense” come from?
hense (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Danish se, from Old Danish se, from Old Norse sjá, from Albanian sasi, from French châssis, from French châsse, from Middle French chasse, from Old French chace — to seize, grab; to seize; take up; lift; to take,...
Ancestry of “hense”, step by step
hense traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Danish se
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danish | se | to see; to see each other |
| 2 | Old Danish | se | — |
| 3 | Old Norse | sjá | this, that; to see; first-person singular present... |
| 4 | Albanian | sasi | quantity; number |
| 5 | French | châssis | chassis, frame; window |
| 6 | French | châsse | reliquary; coffin |
| 7 | Middle French | chasse | — |
| 8 | Old French | chace | hunt; inflection of chacer: ## first/third-person... |
| 9 | Old French | chacier | to hunt, to go hunting |
| 10 | Latin | captiāre | to hunt |
| 11 | Latin | captus | captured, having been captured, seized, having... |
| 12 | Latin | capiō | to take, to capture, to catch, to seize, to take captive, to storm |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | kapiō | take |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | kapjō | take, seize |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | kh₂pyéti | — |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | keh₂p- | to seize, grab; to seize; take up; lift; to take,... |
via Danish hen
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danish | hen | Used with a verb, indicating a movement towards... |
| 2 | Middle Low German | hen | — |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | *hiz | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 5 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 6 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 7 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 8 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |