Where does “veltalenhet” come from?
veltalenhet (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål -het, from Middle Low German -hēt, from Middle Low German -heit, from Old Saxon -hed, from Proto-West Germanic -haidu, from Proto-Germanic haiduz, from Proto-Indo-European (s)kayt-.
veltalenhet (Norwegian Bokmål): eloquence; rhetoric
Ancestry of “veltalenhet”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | -het | Suffix giving an adjective a nounal meaning;... |
| 2 | Middle Low German | -hēt | — |
| 3 | Middle Low German | -heit | — |
| 4 | Old Saxon | -hed | forming nouns of condition or quality, from nouns... |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | -haidu | — |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | haiduz | manner, way; personality, character; appearance |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)kayt- | — |