Where does “lavastrøm” come from?
lavastrøm (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål lava, from Italian lava, from Neapolitan lava, from Latin lābēs, from Latin lābor, from Old Latin labos, from Romanian labă, from Hungarian láb — fox.
lavastrøm (Norwegian Bokmål): a lava flow
Definitions
- a lava flow
Ancestry of “lavastrøm”, step by step
lavastrøm traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Bokmål lava
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | lava | lava; definite neuter plural of lav |
| 2 | Italian | lava | third-person singular present indicative of... |
| 3 | Neapolitan | lava | a torrent of rain which washed the streets |
| 4 | Latin | lābēs | fall, collapse |
| 5 | Latin | lābor | work |
| 6 | Old Latin | labos | — |
| 7 | Romanian | labă | palm; paw |
| 8 | Hungarian | láb | leg; foot; support, stand |
| 9 | Proto-Uralic | luwe | bone |
| 10 | Proto-Iranian | *Hrawpācáh | fox |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | *Hrawpāćás | fox |
via Norwegian Bokmål strøm
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | strøm | power, electricity; stream; current |
| 2 | Danish | strøm | current; flow, stream, spate; energy |
| 3 | Old Norse | straumr | a stream, a current, a race, a river; the tide |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | straumaz | stream, current, river |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | srowmos | river |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | srew- | to flow, stream |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ser- | to flow; to guard; to bind, to tie together |