Where does “bussjåfør” come from?
bussjåfør (Norwegian Nynorsk) comes from Norwegian Nynorsk sjåfør, from French chauffeur, from French chauffer, from Middle French chauffer, from Old French chauffer, from Old French chaufer, from Vulgar Latin calefare, from Latin calefaciō.
bussjåfør (Norwegian Nynorsk): a bus driver
Ancestry of “bussjåfør”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Norwegian Nynorsk | sjåfør | driver; chauffeur; A person employed to drive a... |
| 2 | French | chauffeur | stoker; fireman; driver; chauffeur |
| 3 | French | chauffer | to heat, to warm, to warm up; to tease, to entice... |
| 4 | Middle French | chauffer | — |
| 5 | Old French | chauffer | Alternative form of chaufer |
| 6 | Old French | chaufer | to heat; to heat up; to warm |
| 7 | Vulgar Latin | calefare | — |
| 8 | Latin | calefaciō | — |
| 9 | Latin | faciō | — |
| 10 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 11 | Latin | -tōrius | — |
| 12 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | — |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |