Where does “rødmaling” come from?
rødmaling (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål måling, 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.
rødmaling (Norwegian Bokmål): red paint
Definitions
- red paint
Ancestry of “rødmaling”, step by step
rødmaling traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Bokmål måling
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | måling | measurement |
| 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 |