Where does “telefonnummer” come from?

telefonnummer (Swedish) comes from Swedish nummer, from Latin numerus, from Proto-Italic nomezos, from Proto-Indo-European némesos.

telefonnummer (Swedish): telephone number

Definitions

  1. telephone number

Ancestry of “telefonnummer”, step by step

telefonnummer traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Swedish nummer

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Swedishnummera number; an individual section of an show; an...
2Latinnumerusnumber; collection, quantity; rank, position
3Proto-Italicnomezos—
4Proto-Indo-Europeannémesos—

via Swedish telefon

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Swedishtelefontelephone
2Swedishtele-tele-; bridging large distances; tele-;...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European némesos →Every word from Proto-Italic nomezos →Every word from Latin numerus →