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Where does “personangrepp” come from?

personangrepp (Swedish) comes from Swedish Person, from Swedish per, from Latin Petrus, from Indonesian penembak, from Indonesian tembak, from Malay tembak, from Malay timbak, from Proto-Malayic timbak.

personangrepp (Swedish): a personal attack, an ad hominem attack

Definitions

  1. a personal attack, an ad hominem attack

Ancestry of “personangrepp”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1SwedishPerson—
2SwedishperFor each; for every
3LatinPetrusPeter
4Indonesianpenembak—
5Indonesiantembak—
6Malaytembakto shoot
7MalaytimbakObsolete form of tembak
8Proto-Malayictimbak—
9Proto-Malayo-Polynesianti(m)bak—
Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian ti(m)bak →