Where does “raser” come from?
raser (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål rasere, from French raser, from Old French raser, from Vulgar Latin raso, from Latin rāsus, from Latin rādō, from Proto-Italic razdō, from Proto-Indo-European rh₁d-dʰ- — to scrape, scratch, gnaw.
raser (Norwegian Bokmål): indefinite plural of rase; imperative of rasere;...
Definitions
- indefinite plural of rase; imperative of rasere;...
Ancestry of “raser”, step by step
raser traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Bokmål rasere
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | rasere | to demolish, destroy, raze |
| 2 | French | raser | to shave; to brush, lightly touch; to raze |
| 3 | Old French | raser | to shave |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | raso | dative masculine singular of rāsus; dative neuter... |
| 5 | Latin | rāsus | scraped, shaved |
| 6 | Latin | rādō | to scrape, shave, scratch |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | razdō | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | rh₁d-dʰ- | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | reh₁d- | to scrape, scratch, gnaw |
via Norwegian Bokmål rase
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | rase | a race; a breed; to be furious, fume, rage, rave |
| 2 | Middle French | race | race; breed |
| 3 | Italian | razza | race, breed; kind, type; family, descent |
| 4 | Italian | razzo | skyrocket; Ellipsis of razzo di segnalazione;... |
| 5 | Italian | raggio | ray, beam, shaft; spoke; radius |
| 6 | Latin | radius | ray; staff, rod; spoke |
| 7 | English | -án | Of or pertaining to;. Often added to words of Latin origin, but also used with words of other origins. When a word ends in a |
| 8 | Middle English | -an | — |