Where does “plåtslagare” come from?
plåtslagare (Swedish) comes from Swedish plåt, from Middle Low German plate, from Latin plata, from Vulgar Latin platta, from Latin plattus, from Ancient Greek πλατύς, from Proto-Indo-European pléth₂us, from Proto-Indo-European pleth₂- — flat.
plåtslagare (Swedish): a sheet metal worker, a tinsmith
Definitions
- a sheet metal worker, a tinsmith
Ancestry of “plåtslagare”, step by step
plåtslagare traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish plåt
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | plåt | sheet metal; a plate, a tray, a flat object; an... |
| 2 | Middle Low German | plate | — |
| 3 | Latin | plata | silver |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | platta | metal plate |
| 5 | Latin | plattus | flattened |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | πλατύς | wide, broad; flat, level; broad-shouldered |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | pléth₂us | flat, broad |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | pleth₂- | flat |
via Swedish slagare
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | slagare | a beater, one who beats |
| 2 | Swedish | -are | Regular construction of comparative: ful →... |
| 3 | Old Swedish | -are | a suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs; such as væriare, from væria |
| 4 | Old Norse | -ari | a suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs;... |
| 5 | Latin | -ārius | er |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *-āzios | Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals) |