Where does “missämja” come from?
missämja (Swedish) comes from Swedish miss, from English Miss, from English Mistress, from Middle English maistresse, from Old French maistresse, from Old French maistre, from Latin magister, from Proto-Italic magisteros — big, great.
missämja (Swedish): discord, people not getting along (leading to tension)
Definitions
- discord, people not getting along (leading to tension)
Ancestry of “missämja”, step by step
missämja traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish miss
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | miss | A failure to hit; A mistake; A beauty; a winner... |
| 2 | English | Miss | Form of address, now used chiefly for an... |
| 3 | English | Mistress | Used as the title of a married woman before her... |
| 4 | Middle English | maistresse | mistress |
| 5 | Old French | maistresse | — |
| 6 | Old French | maistre | master; Master; magister |
| 7 | Latin | magister | teacher; master; a title of the Middle Ages,... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | magisteros | bigger, greater |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | méǵh₂isteros | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | méǵh₂s | big, great |
via Swedish sämja
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | sämja | harmony, friendship, people (or animals) getting along |
| 2 | Old Norse | semja | to shape, compose, arrange; to agree on, settle;... |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | samjaną | to make the same |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | -janą | Derives denominatives from nouns and factitives... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 7 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |