Where does “trykkmåler” come from?
trykkmåler (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål måler, from Norwegian Bokmål måle, from Norwegian Bokmål mål, from Dutch mal, from Old French mole, from Latin modulus, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
trykkmåler (Norwegian Bokmål): a pressure gauge, manometer
Definitions
- a pressure gauge, manometer
Ancestry of “trykkmåler”, step by step
trykkmåler traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Bokmål måler
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | måler | a meter; a geometer moth or geometrid moth of... |
| 2 | Norwegian Bokmål | måle | to measure |
| 3 | Norwegian Bokmål | mål | language, dialect; aim, goal, purpose, target,... |
| 4 | Dutch | mal | mold, cast; foolish, crazy, lacking common sense |
| 5 | Old French | mole | — |
| 6 | Latin | modulus | a small measure or interval; a module; a water... |
| 7 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
via Norwegian Bokmål trykk
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | trykk | pressure; a print; imperative of trykke |
| 2 | Norwegian Bokmål | trykke | to press; to print |
| 3 | Old Norse | þrykkia | — |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | þrukkijaną | to press on; to crowd |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | ter- | tender, weak; young creature |
| 6 | Italian | termine | end, close; limit, term, date, time; term, word |
| 7 | Latin | terminus | a boundary, limit, end |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | termenos | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | térmn̥ | boundary, end |