Where does “storskala” come from?
storskala (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål skåla, from Italian scala, from Byzantine Greek σκάλα, from Latin scāla, from Latin scandere, from Latin scandō, from Proto-Indo-European sḱend-.
storskala (Norwegian Bokmål): large-scale
Ancestry of “storskala”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | skåla | definite feminine singular of skål |
| 2 | Italian | scala | ladder; stair; scale |
| 3 | Byzantine Greek | σκάλα | — |
| 4 | Latin | scāla | — |
| 5 | Latin | scandere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 6 | Latin | scandō | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | sḱend- | — |