Where does “författningsändring” come from?
författningsändring (Swedish) comes from Swedish ändring, from Swedish ändra, from German antragen, from German an-, from German an, from Middle High German āne, from Old High German āna, from Proto-West Germanic ana — on, onto.
författningsändring (Swedish): constitutional amendment
Definitions
- constitutional amendment
Ancestry of “författningsändring”, step by step
författningsändring traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish ändring
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | ändring | a change, a modification, an alteration |
| 2 | Swedish | ändra | to change, to modify; to change one's mind |
| 3 | German | antragen | to offer |
| 4 | German | an- | Separable verb prefix, on; Separable verb prefix,... |
| 5 | German | an | on; upon; at; in; against; by; near; close to;... |
| 6 | Middle High German | āne | without |
| 7 | Old High German | āna | without |
| 8 | Proto-West Germanic | ana | on |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | *an | — |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | ana | on, at; on, onto; ana |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂en- | on, onto |
via Swedish författning
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | författning | a legal code, a law |
| 2 | Swedish | författa | to author, to write |
| 3 | Swedish | -are | Regular construction of comparative: ful →... |
| 4 | Old Swedish | -are | a suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs; such as væriare, from væria |
| 5 | Old Norse | -ari | a suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs;... |
| 6 | Latin | -ārius | er |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *-āzios | Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals) |