Where does “visittkort” come from?
visittkort (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål kort, from Low German kort, from German karte, from Middle High German karte, from Old French carte, from Latin charta, from French cartel, from Italian cartello — to yearn for; to enclose; bowels, intestines.
visittkort (Norwegian Bokmål): business card, calling card, visiting card; a...
Definitions
- business card, calling card, visiting card; a...
Ancestry of “visittkort”, step by step
visittkort traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Bokmål kort
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | kort | short; brief; briefly, shortly |
| 2 | Low German | kort | a card |
| 3 | German | karte | card flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc |
| 4 | Middle High German | karte | — |
| 5 | Old French | carte | Alternative form of chartre |
| 6 | Latin | charta | papyrus, paper; poem, a writing; map |
| 7 | French | cartel | a cartel |
| 8 | Italian | cartello | sign, notice, placard, signboard; signpost, road... |
| 9 | Italian | carta | paper; map; menu |
| 10 | Latin | carta | papyrus; letter etc |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | χάρτης | sheet of paper, paper; book |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | χαράσσω | to sharpen; to engrave, carve, write, draw, stamp |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵʰer- | to yearn for; to enclose; bowels, intestines |
via Norwegian Bokmål visitt
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | visitt | a visit (til / to), a call (on / upon someone) |
| 2 | French | visite | visit; third-person singular present indicative... |
| 3 | French | visiter | to visit |
| 4 | Middle French | visiter | to visit |
| 5 | Latin | vīsitō | to see |
| 6 | Latin | -ito | Forms frequentative verbs from existing verbs or... |
| 7 | Latin | -tō | Forms here |
| 8 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |