Where does “personlig assistent” come from?
personlig assistent (Swedish) comes from Swedish personlig, from Swedish Person, from Swedish per, from Latin Petrus, from Indonesian penembak, from Indonesian tembak, from Malay tembak, from Malay timbak.
personlig assistent (Swedish): an unlicensed assistive personnel, UAP; an assistant for people with extensive disability, who takes care of a person's basic needs (e.g. bathing, clothing, eating, breathing or toilet)
Definitions
- an unlicensed assistive personnel, UAP; an assistant for people with extensive disability, who takes care of a person's basic needs (e.g. bathing, clothing, eating, breathing or toilet)
Ancestry of “personlig assistent”, step by step
personlig assistent traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish personlig
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | personlig | personal, individual |
| 2 | Swedish | Person | a person, in the plural, in tone people |
| 3 | Swedish | per | For each; for every |
| 4 | Latin | Petrus | Peter |
| 5 | Indonesian | penembak | shooter |
| 6 | Indonesian | tembak | to shoot to fire a shot |
| 7 | Malay | tembak | to shoot |
| 8 | Malay | timbak | Obsolete form of tembak |
| 9 | Proto-Malayic | timbak | — |
| 10 | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | ti(m)bak | — |