Where does “ubrukbar” come from?
ubrukbar (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål brukbar, from Norwegian Bokmål bar, from English Bar, from German bär, from Middle High German bër, from Old High German beri, from Proto-West Germanic baʀi, from Proto-Germanic bazją.
ubrukbar (Norwegian Bokmål): unusable
Definitions
- unusable
Ancestry of “ubrukbar”, step by step
ubrukbar traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Bokmål brukbar
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | brukbar | usable, useful, viable |
| 2 | Norwegian Bokmål | bar | bare, naked; a bar; the needles of the conifers,... |
| 3 | English | Bar | A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length |
| 4 | German | bär | — |
| 5 | Middle High German | bër | bear |
| 6 | Old High German | beri | A berry |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | baʀi | berry |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | bazją | berry |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰeh₂- | to shine, glow light; to speak, say |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰeh₂-s-ri- | — |
via Norwegian Bokmål U
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | U | The uppercase form of u, the twenty-first letter of the Norwegian Bokmål alphabet, written in the Latin script; preceded by t and followed by v |
| 2 | Latin | v | Capital form of |
| 3 | Etruscan | 𐌖 | — |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | Υ | ypsilon |
| 5 | Phoenician | 𐤅 | waw; {{l|en|waw}} |
| 6 | Egyptian | 𓏲 | — |