Where does “barnålsopp” come from?
barnålsopp (Norwegian Nynorsk) comes from Norwegian Nynorsk barnål, from Norwegian Nynorsk bar, from English Bar, from German bär, from Middle High German bër, from Old High German beri, from Proto-West Germanic baʀi, from Proto-Germanic bazją.
barnålsopp (Norwegian Nynorsk): any very small forest mushroom with a stem, especially of a genus like Micromphale and Marasmius (and the smaller species of the genus Mycena)
Definitions
- any very small forest mushroom with a stem, especially of a genus like Micromphale and Marasmius (and the smaller species of the genus Mycena)
Ancestry of “barnålsopp”, step by step
barnålsopp traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Nynorsk barnål
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Nynorsk | barnål | a needle |
| 2 | Norwegian Nynorsk | bar | a bar; bar; the needles of the conifers, twigs... |
| 3 | English | Bar | A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length |
| 4 | German | bär | — |
| 5 | Middle High German | bër | bear |
| 6 | Old High German | beri | A berry |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | baʀi | berry |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | bazją | berry |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰeh₂- | to shine, glow light; to speak, say |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰeh₂-s-ri- | — |