Where does “overskrift” come from?
overskrift (Norwegian Nynorsk) comes from Norwegian Nynorsk skrift, from Old Norse skript, from Middle Low German schrift, from Old Saxon skrift, from Proto-West Germanic skrifti, from Latin scrīptum, from Latin scrībō, from Proto-Italic skreiβō — to write.
overskrift (Norwegian Nynorsk): title (subject), heading, headline
Definitions
- title (subject), heading, headline
Ancestry of “overskrift”, step by step
overskrift traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Norwegian Nynorsk skrift
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Nynorsk | skrift | writing; den heilage skrifta - the Holy Scripture... |
| 2 | Old Norse | skript | — |
| 3 | Middle Low German | schrift | — |
| 4 | Old Saxon | skrift | — |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | skrifti | writing, scripture |
| 6 | Latin | scrīptum | text; anything written, writing |
| 7 | Latin | scrībō | to write |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | skreiβō | to carve |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | skreybʰ- | to write |
via Norwegian Nynorsk over
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Nynorsk | over | above; past; over; more than |
| 2 | Old Norse | yfir | above |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | ubiri | over; over, above |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | upéri | alternative reconstruction of *upér |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | upér | above; over |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | upó | under, below |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃ewp- | — |