Where does “språkforsking” come from?
språkforsking (Norwegian Nynorsk) comes from Norwegian Nynorsk språk, from Middle Low German sprāke, from Old Saxon sprāka, from Proto-West Germanic *sprāku.
språkforsking (Norwegian Nynorsk): linguistics
Ancestry of “språkforsking”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Nynorsk | språk | language |
| 2 | Middle Low German | sprāke | — |
| 3 | Old Saxon | sprāka | speech |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | *sprāku | — |