Where does “severdighet” come from?
severdighet (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål severdig, from Norwegian Bokmål se, from Danish se, from Old Danish se, from Old Norse sjá, from Albanian sasi, from French châssis, from French châsse — to seize, grab; to seize; take up; lift; to take,...
severdighet (Norwegian Bokmål): an attraction, sights
Definitions
- an attraction, sights
Ancestry of “severdighet”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | severdig | — |
| 2 | Norwegian Bokmål | se | to see |
| 3 | Danish | se | to see; to see each other |
| 4 | Old Danish | se | — |
| 5 | Old Norse | sjá | this, that; to see; first-person singular present... |
| 6 | Albanian | sasi | quantity; number |
| 7 | French | châssis | chassis, frame; window |
| 8 | French | châsse | reliquary; coffin |
| 9 | Middle French | chasse | — |
| 10 | Old French | chace | hunt; inflection of chacer: ## first/third-person... |
| 11 | Old French | chacier | to hunt, to go hunting |
| 12 | Latin | captiāre | to hunt |
| 13 | Latin | captus | captured, having been captured, seized, having... |
| 14 | Latin | capiō | to take, to capture, to catch, to seize, to take captive, to storm |
| 15 | Proto-Italic | kapiō | take |
| 16 | Proto-Italic | kapjō | take, seize |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | kh₂pyéti | — |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | keh₂p- | to seize, grab; to seize; take up; lift; to take,... |