Where does “insändare” come from?
insändare (Swedish) comes from Swedish sändare, from Swedish sända, from Swedish a, from Swedish avlopp, from Swedish lopp, from Swedish löpa, from Old Swedish løpa, from Old Norse hlaupa.
insändare (Swedish): a letter to the editor
Definitions
- a letter to the editor
Ancestry of “insändare”, step by step
insändare traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish sändare
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | sändare | a sender, a transmitter |
| 2 | Swedish | sända | send; broadcast |
| 3 | Swedish | a | from |
| 4 | Swedish | avlopp | a drain; sewage |
| 5 | Swedish | lopp | a race (running competition or (in an extended sense) other speed competition, like in English) |
| 6 | Swedish | löpa | to run along, stretch; to run, to move quickly... |
| 7 | Old Swedish | løpa | to run |
| 8 | Old Norse | hlaupa | to leap, jump, spring |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | hlaupaną | to jump forward, to leap |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | klaup- | — |
via Swedish in
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | in | into, the direction "from "out" to "in |