Where does “dokument” come from?

dokument (Swedish) comes from German Dokument, from Latin documentum, from Latin -mentum, from Latin -menta, from Proto-Indo-European -mn̥ — Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs.

dokument (Swedish): a document

Definitions

  1. a document

Ancestry of “dokument”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanDokumentdocument
2Latindocumentumlesson; instruction; warning
3Latin-mentuminstrument, medium, or result of; e.g....
4Latin-mentanominative plural of -mentum; accusative plural...
5Proto-Indo-European-mn̥Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs

Words derived from “dokument

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -mn̥Every word from Latin -mentumEvery word from Latin documentum