Where does “tävlingsdeltagare” come from?
tävlingsdeltagare (Swedish) comes from Swedish tävling, from Swedish tävla, from Old Norse tefla, from Old Norse tafl, from Proto-West Germanic *tabulā, from Latin tabula, from Proto-Italic *taðlā — board.
tävlingsdeltagare (Swedish): contestant
Definitions
- contestant
Ancestry of “tävlingsdeltagare”, step by step
tävlingsdeltagare traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish tävling
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | tävling | a competition, a race |
| 2 | Swedish | tävla | to compete, to contend, to race |
| 3 | Old Norse | tefla | to play at tables, chess or draughts |
| 4 | Old Norse | tafl | any of a class of ancient Northern European... |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | *tabulā | table |
| 6 | Latin | tabula | tablet, sometimes a tablet covered with wax for... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *taðlā | board |
via Swedish deltagare
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | deltagare | participant |
| 2 | Swedish | -are | Regular construction of comparative: ful →... |
| 3 | Old Swedish | -are | a suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs; such as væriare, from væria |
| 4 | Old Norse | -ari | a suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs;... |
| 5 | Latin | -ārius | er |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *-āzios | Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals) |