Where does “kustlabb” come from?
kustlabb (Swedish) comes from Swedish labb, from Swedish laboratorium, from Medieval Latin laboratorium, from Latin labotatorius, from Latin laborator, from Latin laboratus, from Latin laboro, from Latin labor — fox.
kustlabb (Swedish): an Arctic skua (Stercorarius parasiticus)
Definitions
- an Arctic skua (Stercorarius parasiticus)
Ancestry of “kustlabb”, step by step
kustlabb traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish labb
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | labb | Skua; a seabird in the family Stercorariidae; A... |
| 2 | Swedish | laboratorium | a laboratory |
| 3 | Medieval Latin | laboratorium | laboratory |
| 4 | Latin | labotatorius | laborable |
| 5 | Latin | laborator | plowman, tiller of the soil |
| 6 | Latin | laboratus | produced, having been produced |
| 7 | Latin | laboro | I toil, labor; I endeavor, strive; I suffer, am... |
| 8 | Latin | labor | work; labour, toil; hardship, trouble, fatigue,... |
| 9 | Old Latin | labos | — |
| 10 | Romanian | labă | palm; paw |
| 11 | Hungarian | láb | leg; foot; support, stand |
| 12 | Proto-Uralic | luwe | bone |
| 13 | Proto-Iranian | *Hrawpācáh | fox |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | *Hrawpāćás | fox |