Where does “sovetablett” come from?
sovetablett (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål tablett, from French tablette, from Old French tablete, from Old French -eté, from Latin -ittus, from Proto-Italic -tos, from Proto-Indo-European -tós — Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems.
sovetablett (Norwegian Bokmål): a sleeping pill
Ancestry of “sovetablett”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | tablett | a tablet or pill |
| 2 | French | tablette | tablet; bar |
| 3 | Old French | tablete | small table; a board to be written on; tablet |
| 4 | Old French | -eté | variant of -té |
| 5 | Latin | -ittus | diminutive suffix, used to create nouns |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -tos | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tós | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |