Where does “passionsveckan” come from?
passionsveckan (Swedish) comes from Swedish passion, from French passion, from Middle French passion, from Old French passion, from Latin passiō, from Latin -tiō, from Latin dissertātiō, from Latin dissertus — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
passionsveckan (Swedish): Holy Week the week leading to Easter Sunday
Definitions
- Holy Week the week leading to Easter Sunday
Ancestry of “passionsveckan”, step by step
passionsveckan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish passion
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | passion | passion |
| 2 | French | passion | Passion, suffering |
| 3 | Middle French | passion | passion |
| 4 | Old French | passion | passion (suffering) |
| 5 | Latin | passiō | suffering; enduring |
| 6 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 7 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 8 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 9 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 10 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 11 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 12 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 13 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
via Swedish vecka
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | vecka | a week, a period of 7 days; a numbered period,... |
| 2 | Swedish | a | from |
| 3 | Swedish | avlopp | a drain; sewage |
| 4 | Swedish | lopp | a race (running competition or (in an extended sense) other speed competition, like in English) |
| 5 | Swedish | löpa | to run along, stretch; to run, to move quickly... |
| 6 | Old Swedish | løpa | to run |
| 7 | Old Norse | hlaupa | to leap, jump, spring |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | hlaupaną | to jump forward, to leap |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | klaup- | — |