Where does “opersonlig” come from?
opersonlig (Swedish) comes from Swedish personlig, from Swedish Person, from Swedish per, from Latin Petrus, from Indonesian penembak, from Indonesian tembak, from Malay tembak, from Malay timbak.
opersonlig (Swedish): impersonal (cold)
Definitions
- impersonal (cold)
Ancestry of “opersonlig”, step by step
opersonlig traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish personlig
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | personlig | personal, individual |
| 2 | Swedish | Person | a person, in the plural, in tone people |
| 3 | Swedish | per | For each; for every |
| 4 | Latin | Petrus | Peter |
| 5 | Indonesian | penembak | shooter |
| 6 | Indonesian | tembak | to shoot to fire a shot |
| 7 | Malay | tembak | to shoot |
| 8 | Malay | timbak | Obsolete form of tembak |
| 9 | Proto-Malayic | timbak | — |
| 10 | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | ti(m)bak | — |
via Swedish o
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | o | O; the letter o; the Greek letter omega, being... |