Where does “terroristbekämpning” come from?
terroristbekämpning (Swedish) comes from Swedish terrorist, from Swedish terror, from Latin terror, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr.
terroristbekämpning (Swedish): fight against terrorists, War on Terror
Definitions
- fight against terrorists, War on Terror
Ancestry of “terroristbekämpning”, step by step
terroristbekämpning traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish terrorist
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | terrorist | terrorist |
| 2 | Swedish | terror | terror |
| 3 | Latin | terror | a dread, terror, great fear, alarm, panic; an... |
| 4 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 5 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 6 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 7 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
via Swedish bekämpning
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | bekämpning | fight |
| 2 | Swedish | bekämpa | to fight and thus (try to) get rid of (something); to combat (something), to fight (something) |
| 3 | German | bekämpfen | to fight (against something), to combat |
| 4 | German | kämpfen | to fight, to struggle |
| 5 | Middle High German | kempfen | — |
| 6 | Old High German | kempfan | — |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | kampijan | to battle; to campaign |
| 8 | Latin | campus | Open flat level ground: a plain, a natural field;... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kh₂emp- | to bend; crooked; to bend, curve |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kh₂em- | to bend, to curve |