Where does “snortning” come from?
snortning (Swedish) comes from Swedish snorta, from English snort, from Middle English snorten, from Middle English fnorten, from Old English *fnorettan, from Old English fnora, from Proto-West Germanic *fnoʀō, from Proto-Germanic fnuzô — to pant, breathe.
snortning (Swedish): snorting the act of breathing in drugs such as cocaine through the nose
Definitions
- snorting the act of breathing in drugs such as cocaine through the nose
Ancestry of “snortning”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | snorta | to snort (usually a drug) |
| 2 | English | snort | The sound made by exhaling or inhaling roughly... |
| 3 | Middle English | snorten | to snore, snort |
| 4 | Middle English | fnorten | to snore, snort |
| 5 | Old English | *fnorettan | to snort |
| 6 | Old English | fnora | a sneeze; sneezing |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | *fnoʀō | a sneeze |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | fnuzô | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | pnew- | to pant, breathe |