Where does “kjærlighetsaffære” come from?
kjærlighetsaffære (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål affære, from French affaire, from Old French afaire, from Old French faire, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor.
kjærlighetsaffære (Norwegian Bokmål): a love affair
Definitions
- a love affair
Ancestry of “kjærlighetsaffære”, step by step
kjærlighetsaffære traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Bokmål affære
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | affære | an affair |
| 2 | French | affaire | affair, business; deal; belonging |
| 3 | Old French | afaire | character; disposition; situation; event;... |
| 4 | Old French | faire | to do |
| 5 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 6 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 7 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 8 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
via Norwegian Bokmål kjærlighet
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | kjærlighet | love; lollipop |
| 2 | Norwegian Bokmål | -het | Suffix giving an adjective a nounal meaning;... |
| 3 | Middle Low German | -hēt | — |
| 4 | Middle Low German | -heit | — |
| 5 | Old Saxon | -hed | forming nouns of condition or quality, from nouns... |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | -haidu | hood |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | haiduz | manner, way; personality, character; appearance |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)kayt- | — |