Where does “ren och skär” come from?
ren och skär (Swedish) comes from Swedish skär, from French chair, from Middle French chair, from Old French char, from Latin carrus, from Gaulish karros, from Proto-Celtic karros, from Proto-Indo-European ḱr̥sós — to run.
ren och skär (Swedish): pure, sheer (as an intensifier)
Definitions
- pure, sheer (as an intensifier)
Ancestry of “ren och skär”, step by step
ren och skär traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish skär
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | skär | pink; having a color between red and white,... |
| 2 | French | chair | flesh |
| 3 | Middle French | chair | flesh |
| 4 | Old French | char | flesh; meat; cart |
| 5 | Latin | carrus | a wagon, a four-wheeled baggage cart; a cartload,... |
| 6 | Gaulish | karros | wagon |
| 7 | Proto-Celtic | karros | wagon |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱr̥sós | vehicle |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱers- | to run |
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) |