Where does “vektor” come from?

vektor (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Latin vector, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

vektor (Norwegian Bokmål): a vector

Definitions

a vector

Ancestry of “vektor”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Latin	vector	bearer, carrier; passenger; first-person singular...
2	Latin	-tor	-er
3	Proto-Italic	-tōr	Forms agent nouns to verb stems
4	Proto-Indo-European	-tōr	Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
5	Proto-Indo-European	-tor-s	—

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →Every word from Latin -tor →Every word from Latin vector →