Where does “initiativtagare” come from?

initiativtagare (Swedish) comes from Swedish tagare, from Swedish -are, from Old Swedish -are, from Old Norse -ari, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).

initiativtagare (Swedish): initiator, founder

Definitions

  1. initiator, founder

Ancestry of “initiativtagare”, step by step

initiativtagare traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Swedish tagare

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Swedishtagarea taker
2Swedish-areRegular construction of comparative: ful →...
3Old Swedish-area suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs; such as væriare, from væria
4Old Norse-aria suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs;...
5Latin-āriuser
6Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)

via Swedish initiativ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Swedishinitiativinitiative
Every word from Proto-Italic *-āziosEvery word from Latin -āriusEvery word from Swedish -are