Where does “dødsskvadron” come from?
dødsskvadron (Norwegian Nynorsk) comes from Norwegian Nynorsk skvadron, from English squadron, from French escadron, from Italian squadrone, from Italian squadra, from Italian squadrare, from Vulgar Latin exquadra, from Latin ex — a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden...
dødsskvadron (Norwegian Nynorsk): a death squad
Definitions
- a death squad
Ancestry of “dødsskvadron”, step by step
dødsskvadron traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Nynorsk skvadron
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Nynorsk | skvadron | a squadron |
| 2 | English | squadron | Primarily, a square; hence, a square body of... |
| 3 | French | escadron | squadron |
| 4 | Italian | squadrone | squadron |
| 5 | Italian | squadra | set square, triangle; team, squad, group, side;... |
| 6 | Italian | squadrare | To delimit in a square or rectangular shape; to... |
| 7 | Vulgar Latin | exquadra | — |
| 8 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 9 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 10 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 11 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 16 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 17 | Middle Dutch | kitte | a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden... |