Where does “sort hull” come from?
sort hull (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål sort, from Danish sort, from French sorte, from Old French sorte, from Italian sorta, from Latin sors, from Latin legere, from Latin legō — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
sort hull (Norwegian Bokmål): black hole
Ancestry of “sort hull”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | sort | black; a sort, kind or type |
| 2 | Danish | sort | black; under the table; done in secret so as to... |
| 3 | French | sorte | sort, kind, type; way, manner; first/third-person... |
| 4 | Old French | sorte | sort; type |
| 5 | Italian | sorta | sort, type, kind; feminine singular past... |
| 6 | Latin | sors | anything used to determine chances, lot; a... |
| 7 | Latin | legere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 8 | Latin | legō | — |
| 9 | Latin | lēx | — |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | lēg- | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ-s | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |