Where does “tidsskala” come from?
tidsskala (Norwegian Nynorsk) comes from Norwegian Nynorsk skåla, from Italian scala, from Byzantine Greek σκάλα, from Latin scāla, from Latin scandere, from Latin scandō, from Proto-Indo-European sḱend-.
tidsskala (Norwegian Nynorsk): a timescale
Ancestry of “tidsskala”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Norwegian Nynorsk | skåla | definite singular of skål |
| 2 | Italian | scala | ladder; stair; scale |
| 3 | Byzantine Greek | σκάλα | — |
| 4 | Latin | scāla | — |
| 5 | Latin | scandere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 6 | Latin | scandō | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | sḱend- | — |