Where does “flammepunkt” come from?
flammepunkt (Norwegian Nynorsk) comes from Norwegian Nynorsk flamme, from German Flamme, from Middle High German vlamme, from Latin flamma, from Latin flāgrāre, from Latin frāgrō, from Proto-Italic frāgrāō, from Proto-Indo-European bʰreh₂gro- — to smell.
flammepunkt (Norwegian Nynorsk): flash point or flashpoint
Definitions
- flash point or flashpoint
Ancestry of “flammepunkt”, step by step
flammepunkt traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Nynorsk flamme
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Nynorsk | flamme | <br>; flame; to blaze, flame |
| 2 | German | Flamme | flame |
| 3 | Middle High German | vlamme | — |
| 4 | Latin | flamma | flame, fire |
| 5 | Latin | flāgrāre | — |
| 6 | Latin | frāgrō | to emit a smell of, to smell of, to be redolent of, to reek of |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | frāgrāō | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰreh₂gro- | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰreh₂g- | to smell |
via Norwegian Nynorsk punkt
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Nynorsk | punkt | point; a dot |
| 2 | Old Norse | punktr | — |
| 3 | Latin | pūnctum | point |
| 4 | Latin | punctus | pricked, punctured, pierced, having been pricked;... |
| 5 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |