Where does “tv-spel” come from?
tv-spel (Swedish) comes from Swedish tv, from Swedish television, from English televisión, from French télévision, from German Television, from Italian televisione, from Spanish televisión, from Spanish tele- — resin.
tv-spel (Swedish): a video game (played on a television screen)
Definitions
- a video game (played on a television screen)
Ancestry of “tv-spel”, step by step
tv-spel traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish tv
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | tv | television; a TV set, a telly |
| 2 | Swedish | television | television |
| 3 | English | televisión | An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound |
| 4 | French | télévision | television |
| 5 | German | Television | — |
| 6 | Italian | televisione | television |
| 7 | Spanish | televisión | television |
| 8 | Spanish | tele- | tele |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | τῆλε | far off, afar, far away |
| 10 | Latin | commūnicāre | — |
| 11 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 12 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 17 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 18 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 19 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 20 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 21 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
via Swedish spel
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | spel | a play, a game; a person's or animal's happy,... |
| 2 | Old Swedish | spill | — |
| 3 | Middle Low German | spille | — |
| 4 | German | spinnila | — |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | spinnilu | spindle |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | spinnan | to spin |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | spinnaną | to spin |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)pénh₁-ne- | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)penh₁- | to twist; to weave |