Where does “tilse” come from?
tilse (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål se, from Danish se, from Old Danish se, from Old Norse sjá, from Albanian sasi, from French châssis, from French châsse, from Middle French chasse — to seize, grab; to seize; take up; lift; to take,...
Ancestry of “tilse”, step by step
tilse traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Bokmål se
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | se | to see |
| 2 | Danish | se | to see; to see each other |
| 3 | Old Danish | se | — |
| 4 | Old Norse | sjá | this, that; to see; first-person singular present... |
| 5 | Albanian | sasi | quantity; number |
| 6 | French | châssis | chassis, frame; window |
| 7 | French | châsse | reliquary; coffin |
| 8 | Middle French | chasse | — |
| 9 | Old French | chace | hunt; inflection of chacer: ## first/third-person... |
| 10 | Old French | chacier | to hunt, to go hunting |
| 11 | Latin | captiāre | to hunt |
| 12 | Latin | captus | captured, having been captured, seized, having... |
| 13 | Latin | capiō | to take, to capture, to catch, to seize, to take captive, to storm |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | kapiō | take |
| 15 | Proto-Italic | kapjō | take, seize |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | kh₂pyéti | — |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | keh₂p- | to seize, grab; to seize; take up; lift; to take,... |
via Norwegian Bokmål til
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | til | to |
| 2 | Norwegian Bokmål | flukt | flight, escape |
| 3 | Middle Low German | vlucht | — |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | *fluhtī | act of flying, flight |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | *fluhtiją | — |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | flehtaną | to plait, to weave |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | pleḱ- | to fold, plait, weave |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | pel- | to cover, to wrap; skin, hide, cloth; to fold |