Where does “skrota” come from?
skrota (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål skrote, from Swedish skrota, from Swedish a, from Swedish avlopp, from Swedish lopp, from Swedish löpa, from Old Swedish løpa, from Old Norse hlaupa.
skrota (Norwegian Bokmål): inflection of skrote: ## simple past ## past...
Definitions
- inflection of skrote: ## simple past ## past...
Ancestry of “skrota”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | skrote | to scrap |
| 2 | Swedish | skrota | to scrap; to discard; to potter |
| 3 | Swedish | a | from |
| 4 | Swedish | avlopp | a drain; sewage |
| 5 | Swedish | lopp | a race (running competition or (in an extended sense) other speed competition, like in English) |
| 6 | Swedish | löpa | to run along, stretch; to run, to move quickly... |
| 7 | Old Swedish | løpa | to run |
| 8 | Old Norse | hlaupa | to leap, jump, spring |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | hlaupaną | to jump forward, to leap |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | klaup- | — |