Where does “avskrap” come from?

avskrap (Swedish) comes from Swedish av, from Old Norse af, from Proto-Germanic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European apó.

avskrap (Swedish): scrapings, scraps (waste material, from scraping, or more generally)

Definitions

  1. scrapings, scraps (waste material, from scraping, or more generally)

Ancestry of “avskrap”, step by step

avskrap traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Swedish av

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Swedishavfrom; starting at; by
2Old Norseafof, from, off, by
3Proto-Germanic*ab—
4Proto-Indo-Europeanapó—

via Swedish skräp

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Swedishskräpgarbage, junk
Every word from Proto-Indo-European apó →Every word from Proto-Germanic *ab →Every word from Old Norse af →
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