Where does “julbelysning” come from?
julbelysning (Swedish) comes from Swedish belysning, from Swedish belysa, from Swedish be, from Swedish bedja, from Portuguese velha, from Portuguese velho, from Old Portuguese velho, from Late Latin veclus — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
julbelysning (Swedish): Christmas lights
Definitions
- Christmas lights
Ancestry of “julbelysning”, step by step
julbelysning traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish belysning
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | belysning | lighting |
| 2 | Swedish | belysa | to illuminate, to shine |
| 3 | Swedish | be | to ask for, request someone else to do something;... |
| 4 | Swedish | bedja | Dated form of be |
| 5 | Portuguese | velha | feminine singular of velho; female equivalent of... |
| 6 | Portuguese | velho | old; ancient; old; aged; old |
| 7 | Old Portuguese | velho | — |
| 8 | Late Latin | veclus | — |
| 9 | Latin | vetulus | old; little old, poor old; old man; little old... |
| 10 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
via Swedish jul
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | jul | Christmas; July; Abbreviation of juli |
| 2 | Swedish | juli | July |
| 3 | Latin | Iūlius | Of the gens Julia, a patrician Roman family |
| 4 | Latin | iuppiter | Jupiter god of the sky and ruler of the Roman pantheon |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | djous patēr | Jupiter |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *djous | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | dyḗws | sky, heaven; sky god |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | dyéws | sky, heaven |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | dyew- | to be bright; sky, heaven |