Where does “skrivefeil” come from?

skrivefeil (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål feil, from Middle Low German feil, from French faille, from French faillir, from Middle French faillir, from Old French falir, from Vulgar Latin fallire, from Latin fallō — to bend; to lie, deceive.

skrivefeil (Norwegian Bokmål): a typo, typographical error; a writing error,...

Definitions

  1. a typo, typographical error; a writing error,...

Ancestry of “skrivefeil”, step by step

skrivefeil traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Norwegian Bokmål feil

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Norwegian Bokmålfeilwrong; error, mistake
2Middle Low Germanfeil—
3Frenchfaillefault; flaw; third-person singular present...
4Frenchfaillirto almost do something; to fail; to go bankrupt
5Middle Frenchfaillirto fail
6Old Frenchfalirto fail; to err; to make a mistake
7Vulgar Latinfallire—
8Latinfallōto deceive, beguile, trick, cheat, delude, ensnare, disappoint
9Proto-Indo-Europeanǵʰwel-to bend; to lie, deceive

via Norwegian Bokmål skrive

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Norwegian Bokmålskriveto write
2Old Norseskrifa—
3Proto-Germanicskrībanąto write
4Latinscrībōto write
5Proto-Italicskreiβōto carve
6Proto-Indo-Europeanskreybʰ-to write
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰwel- →Every word from Latin fallō →Every word from Vulgar Latin fallire →