Where does “punkt slut” come from?
punkt slut (Swedish) comes from Swedish slut, from Middle Low German slūt, from Middle Low German slūten, from Old Saxon slūtan, from Proto-West Germanic *sleutan, from Proto-Germanic sleutaną, from Proto-Indo-European (s)klewd-, from Proto-Indo-European (s)kleh₂w- — to bend, crook; bent, crooked; leg, heel, knee,...
punkt slut (Swedish): full stop, period, end of story (this is not up for debate)
Definitions
- full stop, period, end of story (this is not up for debate)
Ancestry of “punkt slut”, step by step
punkt slut traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish slut
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | slut | over, finished; which has come to an end; gone,... |
| 2 | Middle Low German | slūt | end; conclusion |
| 3 | Middle Low German | slūten | to close |
| 4 | Old Saxon | slūtan | to close, conclude, lock |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | *sleutan | to bolt, lock |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | sleutaną | to bolt, lock; to shut, close |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)klewd- | to lock |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)kleh₂w- | a hook, crook, peg |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)kel- | to bend, crook; bent, crooked; leg, heel, knee,... |
via Swedish punkt
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | punkt | a period, a full stop; an item; a point; size of... |
| 2 | Latin | pūnctum | point |
| 3 | Latin | punctus | pricked, punctured, pierced, having been pricked;... |
| 4 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |