Where does “stavefeil” come from?

stavefeil (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.

stavefeil (Norwegian Bokmål): a misspelling, spelling error or spelling mistake

Definitions

  1. a misspelling, spelling error or spelling mistake

Ancestry of “stavefeil”, step by step

stavefeil 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 stave

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Norwegian Bokmålstaveto spell
2Old Norsestafa—
3Old Norsestafrstaff
4Proto-Norseᛋᛏᚼᛒᚼ—
5Proto-Germanicstabazstaff, stick
6Proto-Indo-Europeanstebʰ-to stand still; to harden
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰwel- →Every word from Latin fallō →Every word from Vulgar Latin fallire →