Where does “taxisjåfør” come from?

taxisjåfør (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål sjåfør, from French chauffeur, from French chauffer, from Middle French chauffer, from Old French chauffer, from Old French chaufer, from Vulgar Latin calefare, from Latin calefaciō.

taxisjåfør (Norwegian Bokmål): a taxi driver

Definitions

  1. a taxi driver

Ancestry of “taxisjåfør”, step by step

taxisjåfør traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Norwegian Bokmål sjåfør

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Norwegian Bokmålsjåførdriver; chauffeur; A person employed to drive a...
2Frenchchauffeurstoker; fireman; driver; chauffeur
3Frenchchaufferto heat, to warm, to warm up; to tease, to entice...
4Middle Frenchchauffer—
5Old FrenchchaufferAlternative form of chaufer
6Old Frenchchauferto heat; to heat up; to warm
7Vulgar Latincalefare—
8Latincalefaciōto warm or heat
9Latinfaciōto do
10Latin-toriumnominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative...
11Latin-tōriusory
12Latin-tor-er
13Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
14Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
15Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—

via Norwegian Bokmål taxi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Norwegian Bokmåltaxia taxi
2EnglishtaxiA vehicle that may be hired for single journeys...
3Englishtaximeter cab—
4EnglishtaximeterA device installed in a taxicab that calculates...
5Frenchtaximètretaximeter
6Frenchtaxamètre—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →Every word from Latin -torium →Every word from Latin -tor →