ansvar
Danish
/ansvaːˀr/
noun
Definitions
- responsibility the state of being responsible
- liability an obligation, debt or responsibility owed to someone
- blame
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse andsvar (answer) inherited from Proto-Germanic *andaswarō, *swarō (solemn statement, oath, vow).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*swarō
Gloss
solemn statement, oath, vow
Concept
Semantic Field
Law
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- answer English
- answer print English
- answerability English
- answerable English
- answerer English
- answerest English
- answereth English
- answering English
- answerless English
- answerphone English
- autoanswer English
- foreanswer English
- misanswer English
- multianswer English
- nonanswer English
- reanswer English
- *swer- Proto-Indo-European
- ansvar Norwegian Bokmål
- *andaswarō Proto-Germanic
- *swarō Proto-Germanic
- ansvar Swedish
- ansvar Norwegian Nynorsk
- swaru Old English
- answere Middle English
- andsvar Old Norse
- svar Old Norse
- ansvarlig Danish
- ansvarsfraskrivelse Danish
- forsvar Danish
- fraskrivelse Danish
- svar Danish
- svarperson Danish
- *andaswaru gmw-pro
- andswor Old Saxon
- ansa Tok Pisin