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