Where does “opersonlighet” come from?
opersonlighet (Swedish) comes from Swedish opersonlig, from Swedish personlig, from Swedish Person, from Swedish per, from Latin Petrus, from Indonesian penembak, from Indonesian tembak, from Malay tembak.
opersonlighet (Swedish): impersonalness
Definitions
- impersonalness
Ancestry of “opersonlighet”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | opersonlig | impersonal (cold) |
| 2 | Swedish | personlig | personal, individual |
| 3 | Swedish | Person | a person, in the plural, in tone people |
| 4 | Swedish | per | For each; for every |
| 5 | Latin | Petrus | Peter |
| 6 | Indonesian | penembak | shooter |
| 7 | Indonesian | tembak | to shoot to fire a shot |
| 8 | Malay | tembak | to shoot |
| 9 | Malay | timbak | Obsolete form of tembak |
| 10 | Proto-Malayic | timbak | — |
| 11 | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | ti(m)bak | — |