Where does “vapenporslin” come from?
vapenporslin (Swedish) comes from Swedish porslin, from French porcelaine, from Old French pourcelaine, from Italian porcellana, from Italian porcella, from Italian porca, from Latin porca, from Esperanto porka — passed , crossed.
vapenporslin (Swedish): armorial ware/porcelain, heraldic china
Definitions
- armorial ware/porcelain, heraldic china
Ancestry of “vapenporslin”, step by step
vapenporslin traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish porslin
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | porslin | porcelain, china |
| 2 | French | porcelaine | cowrie, a mollusk of the family Cypraeidae, or... |
| 3 | Old French | pourcelaine | Cowrie, cockle, or similar univalve shell; The... |
| 4 | Italian | porcellana | porcelain, china; third-person singular present... |
| 5 | Italian | porcella | female equivalent of porcello; slut, bitch, goer |
| 6 | Italian | porca | the ridge between two furrows; balk; sow; A... |
| 7 | Latin | porca | sow; the ridge between two furrows; a balk |
| 8 | Esperanto | porka | porcine |
| 9 | Esperanto | porko | pig |
| 10 | Latin | porcus | a piglet, a young pig; a pig, hog; Short for... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | porkos | pig |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | pórḱos | piglet |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | perḱ- | colored; motley; to open, rip up |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |
via Swedish våpen
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | våpen | definite plural of våp |
| 2 | English | vape | Clipping of vaporizer; To inhale the vapor... |
| 3 | English | vaporize | To turn into vapor |
| 4 | English | -ize | Used to form verbs from nouns or adjectives |
| 5 | Middle English | -isen | -ise, -ize |
| 6 | Middle French | -iser | -ize |
| 7 | Latin | -izō | Used to form similative verbs from nouns and adjectives |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | -ίζω | Used to form verbs from nouns, adjectives and... |
| 9 | Proto-Hellenic | -íďďō | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -idyéti | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 13 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |