Where does “bidragsfuskare” come from?
bidragsfuskare (Swedish) comes from Swedish bidrag, from Swedish bidra, from Swedish dra, from Swedish draga, from Middle Low German dragen, from Old Saxon dragan, from Proto-Germanic dragan, from Proto-Germanic draganą — pull, draw, drag; to glide, swoop; to draw, glide.
bidragsfuskare (Swedish): benefit fraudster, welfare fraudster
Definitions
- benefit fraudster, welfare fraudster
Ancestry of “bidragsfuskare”, step by step
bidragsfuskare traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish bidrag
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | bidrag | a contribution; a subsidy, a social benefit, aid,... |
| 2 | Swedish | bidra | to contribute |
| 3 | Swedish | dra | pull; to tell a short story or joke; leave for... |
| 4 | Swedish | draga | Dated form of dra |
| 5 | Middle Low German | dragen | — |
| 6 | Old Saxon | dragan | to go, to travel |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | dragan | — |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | draganą | to draw, to pull, to carry |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰreǵ- | pull, draw, drag; to glide, swoop; to draw, glide |
via Swedish fuskare
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | fuskare | cheater |
| 2 | Swedish | -are | Regular construction of comparative: ful →... |
| 3 | Old Swedish | -are | a suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs; such as væriare, from væria |
| 4 | Old Norse | -ari | a suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs;... |
| 5 | Latin | -ārius | er |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *-āzios | Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals) |