Where does “storhetstid” come from?
storhetstid (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Swedish storhet, from Swedish stor, from Swedish krig, from Swedish skadeersättning, from Swedish ersättning, from Swedish ersätta, from German ersetzen, from Middle High German ersetzen — Forms causative imperfective verbs from roots;...
storhetstid (Norwegian Bokmål): golden age, days of glory
Definitions
- golden age, days of glory
Ancestry of “storhetstid”, step by step
storhetstid traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish storhet
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | storhet | greatness; a quantity, a property |
| 2 | Swedish | stor | big, large; of large size; great, grand, very... |
| 3 | Swedish | krig | war |
| 4 | Swedish | skadeersättning | compensation for damages |
| 5 | Swedish | ersättning | a replacement; a compensation, a payment |
| 6 | Swedish | ersätta | replace |
| 7 | German | ersetzen | to replace, to substitute |
| 8 | Middle High German | ersetzen | — |
| 9 | Old High German | irsezzen | — |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | *uʀsattjan | — |
| 11 | Proto-Germanic | *sattjan | — |
| 12 | Proto-Germanic | satjaną | to set, to place down |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | sodéyeti | to set, to seat, to cause to sit |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | -éyeti | Forms causative imperfective verbs from roots;... |
via Swedish tid
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | tid | time; time, period, era |
| 2 | Old Swedish | tiþ | time; occasion; moment |
| 3 | Old Norse | tíð | time; hour; divine service, prayers |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | tīdiz | time; period, interval |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | déh₂itis | interval, period of time |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | deh₂y- | to share, divide |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | deh₂- | to share, divide |