Where does “åkallan” come from?
åkallan (Swedish) comes from Swedish åkalla, from Swedish å, from Swedish och, from Old Swedish ock, from Old Norse ok, from Old Norse svá, from Proto-Germanic swa, from Proto-Germanic swē — self (reflexive pronoun).
åkallan (Swedish): invocation
Definitions
- invocation
Ancestry of “åkallan”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | åkalla | to invoke, to call upon (a deity or the like) |
| 2 | Swedish | å | a river, a creek, a big stream; on |
| 3 | Swedish | och | and; used to connect two homogeneous words or... |
| 4 | Old Swedish | ock | — |
| 5 | Old Norse | ok | and; also, too; yoke |
| 6 | Old Norse | svá | so |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | swa | so, thus, in this manner |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | swē | like, similar to; just like, in the same manner... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | swē | self (reflexive pronoun) |