Where does “innbyggertall” come from?
innbyggertall (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål innbygger, from Norwegian Bokmål -er, from Danish -er, from Old Norse -ari, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).
innbyggertall (Norwegian Bokmål): population
Definitions
- population
Ancestry of “innbyggertall”, step by step
innbyggertall traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Bokmål innbygger
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | innbygger | an inhabitant |
| 2 | Norwegian Bokmål | -er | person or thing that does an action indicated by... |
| 3 | Danish | -er | Forms agent nouns from verbs, with the sense... |
| 4 | Old Norse | -ari | a suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs;... |
| 5 | Latin | -ārius | er |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *-āzios | Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals) |
via Norwegian Bokmål tall
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | tall | number, numeral, figure |
| 2 | Old Norse | tal | a talk, parley, conversation; speech, language; a... |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | talą | speech; number |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | dol- | reckoning, calculation, fraud; calculation, fraud |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | del- | to aim, calculate, adjust, count; to reckon,... |