Where does “raketforskare” come from?
raketforskare (Swedish) comes from Swedish forskare, from Swedish forska, from German forschen, from Middle Low German vorschen, from Middle High German vorschen, from Old High German forscōn, from Proto-West Germanic forskōn, from Proto-West Germanic forsku.
raketforskare (Swedish): a (literal or figurative) rocket scientist
Definitions
- a (literal or figurative) rocket scientist
Ancestry of “raketforskare”, step by step
raketforskare traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish forskare
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | forskare | a researcher |
| 2 | Swedish | forska | research |
| 3 | German | forschen | to research |
| 4 | Middle Low German | vorschen | — |
| 5 | Middle High German | vorschen | — |
| 6 | Old High German | forscōn | — |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | forskōn | to inquire, question |
| 8 | Proto-West Germanic | forsku | question, inquiry |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | furskō | question |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥sḱ-eh₂ | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥sḱéti | to keep asking, to question |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | preḱ- | to ask |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥ḱneh₂ | — |
via Swedish raket
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | raket | a rocket |
| 2 | German | Rakete | rocket, missile |
| 3 | Italian | rocchetta | incendiary rocket |
| 4 | Italian | rocchetto | spool; reel; coil |
| 5 | Italian | -etto | Alterative suffix used to form melioratives,... |
| 6 | English | -et | Used to form diminutives, loosely construed |
| 7 | Middle English | -et | Forms diminutive nouns from nouns; in some words,... |
| 8 | Old French | -et | Used to form a diminutive, masculine noun;... |
| 9 | Latin | -ātus | ed |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -ātos | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂tos | Forms adjectives from nouns, indicating the possession of a thing or a quality |