Where does “påssjuka” come from?
påssjuka (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,...
påssjuka (Swedish): mumps
Definitions
- mumps
Ancestry of “påssjuka”, step by step
påssjuka traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish påse
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | to hunt |
| 13 | Latin | captus | captured, having been captured, seized, having... |
| 14 | Latin | capiō | to take, to capture, to catch, to seize, to take captive, to storm |
| 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,... |
via Swedish sjuka
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | sjuka | a disease, an illness, a plague; small hospital,... |