Where does “kåldolme” come from?
kåldolme (Swedish) comes from Swedish kål, from Old Swedish kāl, from Old Norse kál, from Old English cāwel, from Proto-West Germanic *kauli, from Latin caulis, from Ancient Greek καυλός, from Proto-Indo-European keh₂ulós.
kåldolme (Swedish): a cabbage roll
Definitions
- a cabbage roll
Ancestry of “kåldolme”, step by step
kåldolme traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish kål
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | kål | cabbage; edible plants of the species "Brassica... |
| 2 | Old Swedish | kāl | — |
| 3 | Old Norse | kál | cabbage, kale |
| 4 | Old English | cāwel | colewort |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | *kauli | cabbage, colewort |
| 6 | Latin | caulis | dative plural of caulae; ablative plural of... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | καυλός | stem, stalk; shaft |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | keh₂ulós | — |
via Swedish dolme
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | dolme | a dolma |
| 2 | Ottoman Turkish | طولمه | an act of filling; anything used to stuff or fill... |
| 3 | Georgian | ტოლმა | dolma, cabbage roll |
| 4 | Turkish | dolma | Made by filling, such as land created by filling a part of a sea or lake |
| 5 | Ottoman Turkish | dolma | — |
| 6 | Turkish | dolmak | to be full |
| 7 | Ottoman Turkish | طولمق | to get full, be filled; to fill, to become full |
| 8 | Proto-Turkic | tol- | to get filled; to swell |