Where does “uoppmerksomhet” come from?
uoppmerksomhet (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål oppmerksomhet, from Norwegian Bokmål oppmerksom, from German aufmerksam, from German aufmerken, from German merken, from Middle High German merken, from Old High German merchen, from Proto-West Germanic *markijan — he, she.
uoppmerksomhet (Norwegian Bokmål): inattention
Ancestry of “uoppmerksomhet”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | oppmerksomhet | attention, attentiveness; awareness |
| 2 | Norwegian Bokmål | oppmerksom | aware, mindful; attentive |
| 3 | German | aufmerksam | attentive, alert, observant; kind, nice |
| 4 | German | aufmerken | to observe |
| 5 | German | merken | to notice; to memorize, remember; to realize |
| 6 | Middle High German | merken | — |
| 7 | Old High German | merchen | — |
| 8 | Proto-West Germanic | *markijan | — |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | markijaną | to mark; to perceive, notice |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | -janą | Derives denominatives from nouns and factitives... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 13 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |