Where does “gravskändare” come from?
gravskändare (Swedish) comes from Swedish grav, from Swedish kapell, from Old Swedish cappell, from Medieval Latin cappella, from Latin cāppa, from Latin caput, from Proto-Italic kaput, from Proto-Indo-European káput — to seize, hold.
gravskändare (Swedish): grave desecrator
Definitions
- grave desecrator
Ancestry of “gravskändare”, step by step
gravskändare traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish grav
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | grav | severe, as in a mistake or a congenital disorder;... |
| 2 | Swedish | kapell | a chapel |
| 3 | Old Swedish | cappell | — |
| 4 | Medieval Latin | cappella | — |
| 5 | Latin | cāppa | cape, cloak |
| 6 | Latin | caput | head; headlike protuberance on an organ or body... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | kaput | head |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | káput | head |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kap- | to seize, hold |
via Swedish skändare
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | skändare | a desecrator, a violator |
| 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) |