Where does “Hötorgsskrapa” come from?
Hötorgsskrapa (Swedish) comes from Swedish skyskrapa, from English skyscraper, from English scraper, from English -er, from Middle English -er, from Old French -er, from Latin -āre, from Proto-Italic -āō — he, she.
Hötorgsskrapa (Swedish): a Hötorget skyscraper, one of the five tall...
Definitions
- a Hötorget skyscraper, one of the five tall...
Ancestry of “Hötorgsskrapa”, step by step
Hötorgsskrapa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish skyskrapa
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | skyskrapa | skyscraper |
| 2 | English | skyscraper | A very tall building with a large number of... |
| 3 | English | scraper | An instrument with which anything is scraped; One... |
| 4 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 5 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 6 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 7 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 12 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via Swedish Hötorget
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | Hötorget | Hötorget, a city square in Stockholm |
| 2 | Swedish | hö | hay |
| 3 | Danish | hø | hay; rubbish, trash |
| 4 | Old Norse | hey | hay |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | hawją | hay |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | hawwaną | to hew, to chop; to forge |
| 7 | Proto-Celtic | sukkos | pig (snout) |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | suH- | pig, hog, swine |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | sewH- | to bear; to give birth |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | sew- | to press out, extract; juice; liquid, rain; to... |