Where does “stemmegaffel” come from?

stemmegaffel (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål stemme, from Low German stemmen.

stemmegaffel (Norwegian Bokmål): a tuning fork

Definitions

  1. a tuning fork

Ancestry of “stemmegaffel”, step by step

stemmegaffel traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Norwegian Bokmål stemme

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Norwegian Bokmålstemmea voice; a vote; to tune
2Low Germanstemmen—

via Norwegian Bokmål gaffel

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Norwegian Bokmålgaffela fork
Every word from Low German stemmen →Every word from Norwegian Bokmål stemme →