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Where does “samlebegrep” come from?

samlebegrep (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål samle, from Old Norse samna, from Proto-Germanic *samnōną.

samlebegrep (Norwegian Bokmål): a collective term

Definitions

  1. a collective term

Ancestry of “samlebegrep”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Norwegian Bokmålsamleto collect, gather
2Old Norsesamnato collect, assemble
3Proto-Germanic*samnōną—
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