Where does “rampete” come from?
rampete (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål ramp, from English ramp, from French rampe, from French ramper, from Middle French ramper, from Old French ramper, from Frankish rampōn, from Frankish rampa — to cut, cut off, sever.
rampete (Norwegian Bokmål): naughty, cheeky, ruffianly, badly behaved
Definitions
- naughty, cheeky, ruffianly, badly behaved
Ancestry of “rampete”, step by step
rampete traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Bokmål ramp
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | ramp | riffraff, rabble, scum; a group of disorderly or disreputable people |
| 2 | English | ramp | An inclined surface that connects two levels; an... |
| 3 | French | rampe | ramp |
| 4 | French | ramper | to crawl, worm (along); to creep |
| 5 | Middle French | ramper | to crawl |
| 6 | Old French | ramper | to climb; to ascend; to go up |
| 7 | Frankish | rampōn | — |
| 8 | Frankish | rampa | — |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | hrempaną | to bend, curve, make waves, wrinkle; to curve,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)kreb- | to turn; to touch; to turn, bend, shrink, rotate,... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)ker- | to cut off; to turn, bend |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | sek- | to cut, cut off, sever |