Where does “borttagare” come from?
borttagare (Swedish) comes from Swedish bort, from Old Norse burt, from Old Norse braut, from Proto-Germanic brautō, from Proto-Germanic breutaną, from Proto-Indo-European bʰrewd- — to break.
borttagare (Swedish): One who takes away
Definitions
- One who takes away
Ancestry of “borttagare”, step by step
borttagare traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish bort
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | bort | away, off |
| 2 | Old Norse | burt | — |
| 3 | Old Norse | braut | road, cleared path |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | brautō | — |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | breutaną | to destroy, crush, break |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰrewd- | to break |
via Swedish tagare
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | tagare | a taker |
| 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) |