Where does “jourhavande” come from?
jourhavande (Swedish) comes from Swedish jour, from French jour, from Middle French jour, from Old French jor, from Latin diurnum, from Latin diurnus, from Latin diēs, from Proto-Italic djēm — to be bright; sky, heaven.
jourhavande (Swedish): on call, on duty (often of medical staff and the like)
Definitions
- on call, on duty (often of medical staff and the like)
Ancestry of “jourhavande”, step by step
jourhavande traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish jour
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | jour | emergency duty, on call duty |
| 2 | French | jour | day; daylight, light; opening, aperture |
| 3 | Middle French | jour | daylight |
| 4 | Old French | jor | day |
| 5 | Latin | diurnum | masculine accusative singular of diurnus; neuter... |
| 6 | Latin | diurnus | of the day; daily; day |
| 7 | Latin | diēs | A day, particularly |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | djēm | accusative singular of *djous |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | *djous | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | dyḗws | sky, heaven; sky god |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | dyéws | sky, heaven |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | dyew- | to be bright; sky, heaven |
via Swedish havande
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | havande | pregnant |
| 2 | Swedish | häva | to heave, to lift; to end, to terminate |
| 3 | Swedish | håv | hand net |
| 4 | Swedish | ström | current, flow; the part of a fluid that moves... |
| 5 | Old Swedish | strömber | — |
| 6 | Old Norse | straumr | a stream, a current, a race, a river; the tide |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | straumaz | stream, current, river |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | srowmos | river |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | srew- | to flow, stream |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ser- | to flow; to guard; to bind, to tie together |