Where does “nullpekare” come from?

nullpekare (Swedish) comes from Swedish pekare, from Swedish -are, from Old Swedish -are, from Old Norse -ari, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).

nullpekare (Swedish): null pointer

Definitions

  1. null pointer

Ancestry of “nullpekare”, step by step

nullpekare traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Swedish pekare

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Swedishpekarea pointer, a marker; a pointer; a cursor, a...
2Swedish-areRegular construction of comparative: ful →...
3Old Swedish-area suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs; such as væriare, from væria
4Old Norse-aria suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs;...
5Latin-āriuser
6Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)

via Swedish null

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Swedishnull
Every word from Proto-Italic *-āziosEvery word from Latin -āriusEvery word from Swedish -are