Where does “grosshandlare” come from?
grosshandlare (Swedish) comes from Swedish grosshandel, from Swedish gross, from French gros, from Old French gros, from Latin grossus, from Old High German grōz, from Proto-West Germanic graut, from Proto-Germanic grautaz — to yearn for; to enclose; bowels, intestines.
grosshandlare (Swedish): a wholesaler
Definitions
- a wholesaler
Ancestry of “grosshandlare”, step by step
grosshandlare traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish grosshandel
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | grosshandel | wholesale |
| 2 | Swedish | gross | a gross, twelve dozen |
| 3 | French | gros | big, thick, fat; coarse, rough; famous |
| 4 | Old French | gros | big; large |
| 5 | Latin | grossus | coarse, unrefined; young, green, immature; thick,... |
| 6 | Old High German | grōz | big, large, thick; great; large, thick, coarse |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | graut | — |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | grautaz | coarse, crude; big, large |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵʰer- | to yearn for; to enclose; bowels, intestines |
via Swedish handlare
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | handlare | a shopkeeper |
| 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) |