Where does “mattsopare” come from?
mattsopare (Swedish) comes from Swedish mätta, from Swedish a, from Swedish avlopp, from Swedish lopp, from Swedish löpa, from Old Swedish løpa, from Old Norse hlaupa, from Proto-Germanic hlaupaną.
mattsopare (Swedish): a carpet sweeper
Definitions
- a carpet sweeper
Ancestry of “mattsopare”, step by step
mattsopare traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish mätta
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | mätta | to feed, to fill, to make full, to saturate |
| 2 | Swedish | a | from |
| 3 | Swedish | avlopp | a drain; sewage |
| 4 | Swedish | lopp | a race (running competition or (in an extended sense) other speed competition, like in English) |
| 5 | Swedish | löpa | to run along, stretch; to run, to move quickly... |
| 6 | Old Swedish | løpa | to run |
| 7 | Old Norse | hlaupa | to leap, jump, spring |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | hlaupaną | to jump forward, to leap |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | klaup- | — |
via Swedish sopare
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | sopare | a sweeper (person who (professionally) sweeps (cleans with a broom), especially outdoors) |
| 2 | Swedish | -are | Regular construction of comparative: ful →... |
| 3 | Old Swedish | -are | a suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs; such as væriare, from væria |
| 4 | Old Norse | -ari | a suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs;... |
| 5 | Latin | -ārius | er |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *-āzios | Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals) |