Where does “struntsak” come from?

struntsak (Swedish) comes from Swedish strunt, from Middle Low German strunt, from Old Saxon strunt, from Proto-West Germanic strunt, from Proto-Indo-European ster- — sterile, infertile.

struntsak (Swedish): something unimportant, a trifle

Definitions

  1. something unimportant, a trifle

Ancestry of “struntsak”, step by step

struntsak traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Swedish strunt

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Swedishstruntnonsense; that which is not worth paying...
2Middle Low Germanstrunt—
3Old Saxonstrunt—
4Proto-West Germanicstruntdirt, filth; dung
5Proto-Indo-Europeanster-sterile, infertile

via Swedish sak

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Swedishsakthing; undefined individual object, usually of...
2Old Norsesǫklegal case, action; fault
3Proto-Germanicsakōquarrel; charge, case, lawsuit; thing, matter
4Proto-Indo-Europeanseh₂g-to seek out
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ster- →