Where does “kolonialkjøpmann” come from?
kolonialkjøpmann (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål kjøpmann, from Norwegian Bokmål kjøp, from Norwegian Bokmål kjøpe, from Danish købe, from Old Danish køpæ, from Old Norse kaupa, from Proto-Germanic kaupōną, from Proto-Germanic kaupô.
kolonialkjøpmann (Norwegian Bokmål): a grocer
Definitions
- a grocer
Ancestry of “kolonialkjøpmann”, step by step
kolonialkjøpmann traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Bokmål kjøpmann
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | kjøpmann | a shopkeeper |
| 2 | Norwegian Bokmål | kjøp | a purchase, or buy; imperative of kjøpe |
| 3 | Norwegian Bokmål | kjøpe | to buy, to purchase |
| 4 | Danish | købe | buy; purchase; bribe |
| 5 | Old Danish | køpæ | buy, purchase |
| 6 | Old Norse | kaupa | to buy |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | kaupōną | to buy; trade |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | kaupô | innkeeper; merchant |
| 9 | Latin | caupo | Tradesman; Innkeeper, shopkeeper |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kaup- | — |
via Norwegian Bokmål kolonial
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | kolonial | colonial; groceries; a grocer's shop |
| 2 | Latin | colonialis | — |
| 3 | Latin | colōnia | A colony, settlement |
| 4 | Latin | colōnus | farmer, especially a kind of tenant farmer or sharecropper; husbandman; tiller of the soil |
| 5 | Latin | colō | to cultivate the land, till, tend, take care of a field or garden |
| 6 | Latin | quelō | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | kʷelō | to inhabit |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷéleti | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷel- | to turn |