Where does “tilsyn” come from?
tilsyn (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål tilse, from Norwegian Bokmål se, from Danish se, from Old Danish se, from Old Norse sjá, from Albanian sasi, from French châssis, from French châsse — to seize, grab; to seize; take up; lift; to take,...
tilsyn (Norwegian Bokmål): supervision, oversight, monitoring; the act of watching over or looking after someone or something
Definitions
- supervision, oversight, monitoring; the act of watching over or looking after someone or something
Ancestry of “tilsyn”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | tilse | — |
| 2 | Norwegian Bokmål | se | to see |
| 3 | Danish | se | to see; to see each other |
| 4 | Old Danish | se | — |
| 5 | Old Norse | sjá | this, that; to see; first-person singular present... |
| 6 | Albanian | sasi | quantity; number |
| 7 | French | châssis | chassis, frame; window |
| 8 | French | châsse | reliquary; coffin |
| 9 | Middle French | chasse | — |
| 10 | Old French | chace | hunt; inflection of chacer: ## first/third-person... |
| 11 | Old French | chacier | to hunt, to go hunting |
| 12 | Latin | captiāre | to hunt |
| 13 | Latin | captus | captured, having been captured, seized, having... |
| 14 | Latin | capiō | to take, to capture, to catch, to seize, to take captive, to storm |
| 15 | Proto-Italic | kapiō | take |
| 16 | Proto-Italic | kapjō | take, seize |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | kh₂pyéti | — |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | keh₂p- | to seize, grab; to seize; take up; lift; to take,... |