Etymology Explorer › Swedish

Where does “lök” come from?

lök (Swedish) comes from Swedish lokomotiv, from English locomotive, from French locomotif, from Vulgar Latin motivus, from Latin motus, from Latin movere, from Latin moveo, from Proto-Italic moweō — to move.

lök (Swedish): onion; a genus of plants. See also "Allium"; the...

Definitions

  1. onion; a genus of plants. See also "Allium"; the...

Ancestry of “lök”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Swedishlokomotiva locomotive
2EnglishlocomotiveThe power unit of a train that pulls the coaches...
3Frenchlocomotiflocomotive
4Vulgar Latinmotivusmoving; stirred; moved
5Latinmotusmoved, stirred, disturbed, having been moved;...
6Latinmoverepresent active infinitive of moveō; second-person...
7LatinmoveoI move, stir, set in motion; I disturb, shake,...
8Proto-Italicmoweō—
9Proto-Indo-Europeanmew-to move

Words derived from “lök”

  • purjo
  • purjolaukka
  • purjosipuli
  • purjolök
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