Where does “fattigmanskost” come from?
fattigmanskost (Swedish) comes from Swedish kost, from Old Norse kǫstr, from Middle Low German kost, from German Kosten, from Italian costo, from Polish koszt, from Hungarian kösz, from Hungarian köszönöm — 3rd person plural verb ending.
fattigmanskost (Swedish): food characteristically eaten by poor people
Definitions
- food characteristically eaten by poor people
Ancestry of “fattigmanskost”, step by step
fattigmanskost traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish kost
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | kost | food |
| 2 | Old Norse | kǫstr | pile |
| 3 | Middle Low German | kost | meal; food |
| 4 | German | Kosten | costs |
| 5 | Italian | costo | cost; expense; usury |
| 6 | Polish | koszt | cost |
| 7 | Hungarian | kösz | thanks |
| 8 | Hungarian | köszönöm | first-person singular indicative present definite... |
| 9 | Hungarian | -öm | Used to form the first-person singular present... |
| 10 | Hungarian | -ö- | linking vowel |
| 11 | Hungarian | -d | your; Used in the second-person singular definite... |
| 12 | Middle Welsh | -nt | 3rd person plural verb ending |