Where does “ukomfortabel” come from?
ukomfortabel (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål komfortabel, from Norwegian Bokmål komfort, from Old French confort, from Old French conforter, from Latin confortō, from Latin cōn-, from Latin cum, from Old Latin com — to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,...
ukomfortabel (Norwegian Bokmål): uncomfortable
Definitions
- uncomfortable
Ancestry of “ukomfortabel”, step by step
ukomfortabel traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Bokmål komfortabel
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | komfortabel | comfortable |
| 2 | Norwegian Bokmål | komfort | comfort |
| 3 | Old French | confort | — |
| 4 | Old French | conforter | to reassure; to comfort |
| 5 | Latin | confortō | to make stronger, strengthen |
| 6 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 7 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 8 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 12 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 13 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 14 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 15 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 16 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |
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 | — |