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
Definitions
- inattention
Ancestry of “uoppmerksomhet”, step by step
uoppmerksomhet traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Bokmål oppmerksomhet
| 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 | to mark |
| 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 |
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 | — |