Where does “blodpudding” come from?
blodpudding (Swedish) comes from Swedish pudding, from English Pudding, from Middle English podynge, from Old French boudin, from Latin botellus, from Latin -lus, from Proto-Italic -elos, from Proto-Indo-European -e-lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
blodpudding (Swedish): blood pudding
Definitions
- blood pudding
Ancestry of “blodpudding”, step by step
blodpudding traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish pudding
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | pudding | A cake or dessert prepared by boiling or... |
| 2 | English | Pudding | Any of various dishes, sweet or savoury, prepared by boiling or steaming or from batter |
| 3 | Middle English | podynge | sausage stuffed animal intestine |
| 4 | Old French | boudin | blood sausage, black pudding |
| 5 | Latin | botellus | a small sausage |
| 6 | Latin | -lus | Alternative form of -ulus; diminutive suffix |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
via Swedish blöd
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | blöd | blood |
| 2 | Old Swedish | bloþ | blood; living being, human |
| 3 | Old Norse | blóð | blood; offspring |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | blōþą | blood |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰleh₃- | bloom, flower |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |
via Norwegian Bokmål blod
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian Bokmål | blod | blood |