Where does “bokhandlare” come from?
bokhandlare (Swedish) comes from Swedish handlare, from Swedish -are, from Old Swedish -are, from Old Norse -ari, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).
bokhandlare (Swedish): bookseller
Definitions
- bookseller
Ancestry of “bokhandlare”, step by step
bokhandlare traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish handlare
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | handlare | a shopkeeper |
| 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) |
via Swedish bokhandel
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | bokhandel | bookstore; the act of selling books |
| 2 | Swedish | bok | book; beech |
| 3 | Old Swedish | bōk | book |
| 4 | Old Norse | bók | beech; textile fabric with figures woven in it;... |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | bōks | letter, written message, inscriptions carved into... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰeh₂ǵos | beech |