Where does “sikksakkbevegelse” come from?

sikksakkbevegelse (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål bevegelse, from Norwegian Bokmål -else, from Danish -else, from Danish -ilse, from Old Saxon -isli, from Proto-West Germanic -islī, from Proto-West Germanic -ī, from Proto-Germanic -į̄ — Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...

sikksakkbevegelse (Norwegian Bokmål): zigzag movement

Definitions

  1. zigzag movement

Ancestry of “sikksakkbevegelse”, step by step

sikksakkbevegelse traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Norwegian Bokmål bevegelse

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Norwegian Bokmålbevegelsemovement; a movement
2Norwegian Bokmål-elseadded to a verb to form a noun for an action or...
3Danish-elseadded to a verb to form a noun for an action or...
4Danish-ilse
5Old Saxon-isli
6Proto-West Germanic-islīUsed to form nouns from verbs denoting something...
7Proto-West Germanic-ness, -th
8Proto-Germanic-į̄-th
9Proto-Indo-European-íh₂
10Proto-Indo-European-h₂Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...

via Norwegian Bokmål sikksakk

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Norwegian Bokmålsikksakkzigzag
2GermanZickzackzigzag
3Italianzigzagareintransitive; to zigzag; to walk in a zigzag...
4Russianзигза́гzigzag
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -h₂Every word from Proto-Germanic -į̄Every word from Norwegian Bokmål -else