Where does “sillstrypare” come from?

sillstrypare (Swedish) comes from Swedish strypare, from Swedish -are, from Old Swedish -are, from Old Norse -ari, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).

sillstrypare (Swedish): grocer

Definitions

  1. grocer

Ancestry of “sillstrypare”, step by step

sillstrypare traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Swedish strypare

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Swedishstryparestrangler
2Swedish-areRegular construction of comparative: ful →...
3Old Swedish-area suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs; such as væriare, from væria
4Old Norse-aria suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs;...
5Latin-āriuser
6Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)

via Swedish sill

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Swedishsilla herring
2Old Norsesíldherring
3Proto-Germanicsīląa kind of fish; a launce, sand eel; a herring
Every word from Proto-Italic *-āzios