Where does “mikrofiber” come from?
mikrofiber (Swedish) comes from English microfiber, from English fiber, from French fibre, from German Fiber, from Italian fibra, from Spanish fibra, from Portuguese fibra, from Latin fibra — bee.
mikrofiber (Swedish): microfiber , microfibre
Ancestry of “mikrofiber”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | microfiber | Very fine synthetic fiber; cloth made of such... |
| 2 | English | fiber | A single elongated piece of a given material,... |
| 3 | French | fibre | fibre |
| 4 | German | Fiber | — |
| 5 | Italian | fibra | fiber, fibre |
| 6 | Spanish | fibra | fiber; fiber; dietary fiber; fiberglass |
| 7 | Portuguese | fibra | fibre |
| 8 | Latin | fibra | fiber, filament |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰeyd- | to split |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰey- | bee |