Where does “påslakan” come from?
påslakan (Swedish) comes from Swedish påse, from Norwegian Bokmål se, from Danish se, from Old Danish se, from Old Norse sjá, from Albanian sasi, from French châssis, from French châsse — to seize, grab; to seize; take up; lift; to take,...
påslakan (Swedish): duvet cover
Ancestry of “påslakan”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Swedish | påse | a bag |
| 2 | Norwegian Bokmål | se | to see |
| 3 | Danish | se | to see; to see each other |
| 4 | Old Danish | se | — |
| 5 | Old Norse | sjá | this, that; to see; first-person singular present... |
| 6 | Albanian | sasi | quantity; number |
| 7 | French | châssis | chassis, frame; window |
| 8 | French | châsse | reliquary; coffin |
| 9 | Middle French | chasse | — |
| 10 | Old French | chace | hunt; inflection of chacer:
## first/third-person... |
| 11 | Old French | chacier | to hunt, to go hunting |
| 12 | Latin | captiāre | — |
| 13 | Latin | captus | captured, having been captured, seized, having... |
| 14 | Latin | capiō | — |
| 15 | Proto-Italic | kapiō | take |
| 16 | Proto-Italic | kapjō | take, seize |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | kh₂pyéti | — |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | keh₂p- | to seize, grab; to seize; take up; lift; to take,... |