Where does “pompa och ståt” come from?
pompa och ståt (Swedish) comes from Swedish stat, from Middle Low German stāt, from Middle Dutch staet, from Old French estat, from Latin stātus, from Latin stō, from Proto-Italic staēō, from Proto-Indo-European sth₂éh₁yeti.
pompa och ståt (Swedish): pomp and circumstance
Definitions
- pomp and circumstance
Ancestry of “pompa och ståt”, step by step
pompa och ståt traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish stat
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | stat | A state; a nation; A state; a government;... |
| 2 | Middle Low German | stāt | — |
| 3 | Middle Dutch | staet | inflection of stâen: ## third-person singular... |
| 4 | Old French | estat | state; government; condition |
| 5 | Latin | stātus | fixed, set, having been set |
| 6 | Latin | stō | to stand |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | staēō | stand |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | sth₂éh₁yeti | to stand |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | *steh₂- | — |
via Swedish och
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | och | and; used to connect two homogeneous words or... |
| 2 | Old Swedish | ock | — |
| 3 | Old Norse | ok | and; also, too; yoke |
| 4 | Old Norse | svá | so |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | swa | so, thus, in this manner |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | swē | like, similar to; just like, in the same manner... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | swē | self (reflexive pronoun) |
via Swedish pompa
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | pompa | pomp |