Where does “utilfredsstillende” come from?
utilfredsstillende (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål tilfredsstillende, from Norwegian Bokmål tilfredsstille, from Danish stille, from Old Norse stilla, from Middle Low German stillen, from Old Saxon stillian, from Proto-West Germanic stillijan, from Proto-West Germanic -jan — he, she.
utilfredsstillende (Norwegian Bokmål): unsatisfactory
Definitions
- unsatisfactory
Ancestry of “utilfredsstillende”, step by step
utilfredsstillende traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Bokmål tilfredsstillende
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | tilfredsstillende | satisfactory; satisfying; satisfactorily |
| 2 | Norwegian Bokmål | tilfredsstille | to fulfil; to satisfy; to sate |
| 3 | Danish | stille | still; quiet; calm |
| 4 | Old Norse | stilla | to calm |
| 5 | Middle Low German | stillen | — |
| 6 | Old Saxon | stillian | — |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | stillijan | to make still, quiet |
| 8 | Proto-West Germanic | -jan | Creates denominative verbs from nouns; Creates... |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | -janą | Derives denominatives from nouns and factitives... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 12 | 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 | — |