Where does “avskeda” come from?
avskeda (Swedish) comes from Swedish skeda, from Swedish a, from Swedish avlopp, from Swedish lopp, from Swedish löpa, from Old Swedish løpa, from Old Norse hlaupa, from Proto-Germanic hlaupaną.
avskeda (Swedish): to fire someone from an employment
Definitions
- to fire someone from an employment
Ancestry of “avskeda”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | skeda | }} to spoon (up) (serve/transfer with a spoon) |
| 2 | Swedish | a | from |
| 3 | Swedish | avlopp | a drain; sewage |
| 4 | Swedish | lopp | a race (running competition or (in an extended sense) other speed competition, like in English) |
| 5 | Swedish | löpa | to run along, stretch; to run, to move quickly... |
| 6 | Old Swedish | løpa | to run |
| 7 | Old Norse | hlaupa | to leap, jump, spring |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | hlaupaną | to jump forward, to leap |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | klaup- | — |