Where does “bleckslagare” come from?
bleckslagare (Swedish) comes from Swedish bleck, from Low German blick, from Middle Low German bleck, from Old Saxon blek, from Proto-West Germanic blik, from Proto-Germanic bliką, from Proto-Indo-European bʰleyǵ- — to shine.
bleckslagare (Swedish): a tinsmith
Definitions
- a tinsmith
Ancestry of “bleckslagare”, step by step
bleckslagare traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish bleck
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | bleck | tin plate; sheet metal |
| 2 | Low German | blick | — |
| 3 | Middle Low German | bleck | — |
| 4 | Old Saxon | blek | — |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | blik | — |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | bliką | shine; look; metal |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰleyǵ- | to shine |
via Swedish slagare
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | slagare | a beater, one who beats |
| 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) |