Where does “trakassering” come from?
trakassering (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål trakassere, from French tracasser, from French traque, from Old French trac, from Middle Dutch treck, from Old Dutch trecken, from Proto-West Germanic *trakkjan, from Proto-Germanic trakjaną — he, she.
trakassering (Norwegian Bokmål): harassment
Ancestry of “trakassering”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | trakassere | to harass, badger, pester |
| 2 | French | tracasser | to bother; to annoy; to worry |
| 3 | French | traque | tracking |
| 4 | Old French | trac | track of horses, trail, trace; track; a track,... |
| 5 | Middle Dutch | treck | — |
| 6 | Old Dutch | trecken | — |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | *trakkjan | — |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | trakjaną | to drag |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | -janą | Derives denominatives from nouns and factitives... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 12 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |