Where does “östlig talgoxe” come from?
östlig talgoxe (Swedish) comes from Swedish talgoxe, from Swedish talg, from Old Swedish talgher, from Middle Low German talch, from Old Saxon talg, from Proto-West Germanic *talg, from Proto-Germanic talgaz, from Proto-Indo-European del- — to aim, calculate, adjust, count; to reckon,...
östlig talgoxe (Swedish): a Japanese tit
Definitions
- a Japanese tit
Ancestry of “östlig talgoxe”, step by step
östlig talgoxe traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish talgoxe
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | talgoxe | great tit; a bird in the Paridae family |
| 2 | Swedish | talg | tallow |
| 3 | Old Swedish | talgher | — |
| 4 | Middle Low German | talch | — |
| 5 | Old Saxon | talg | — |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | *talg | — |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | talgaz | tallow |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | del- | to aim, calculate, adjust, count; to reckon,... |
via Swedish ostlig
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | ostlig | eastern |
| 2 | Swedish | -lig | -ly, -like; forms adjectives |
| 3 | Old Swedish | -līker | — |
| 4 | Old Norse | -ligr | suffix used to create adjectives, having the... |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | -līkaz | -like, -ly |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | līką | body; corpse, dead body; leech-line, bolt-rope |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | leyǵ- | to bind, tie |