Where does “oljemaleri” come from?
oljemaleri (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål maleri, from Norwegian Bokmål måle, from Norwegian Bokmål mål, from Dutch mal, from Old French mole, from Latin modulus, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
oljemaleri (Norwegian Bokmål): an oil painting
Definitions
- an oil painting
Ancestry of “oljemaleri”, step by step
oljemaleri traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Bokmål maleri
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | maleri | painting, a picture |
| 2 | Norwegian Bokmål | måle | to measure |
| 3 | Norwegian Bokmål | mål | language, dialect; aim, goal, purpose, target,... |
| 4 | Dutch | mal | mold, cast; foolish, crazy, lacking common sense |
| 5 | Old French | mole | — |
| 6 | Latin | modulus | a small measure or interval; a module; a water... |
| 7 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |