köken: From Middle High German *īver (“jealousy”). The simplex is first attested in 1494 as yfer, but in 1349 the derivative eifrær (in a southern text that already reflects diphthongisation, thus equivalent to a classical *īverære). An Upper German dialect word, which was chosen by Luther to express the idea of Ancient Greek ζῆλος (zêlos). From the German then Dutch ijver, Middle Low German īver, and…
aile: im Eifer des Gefechts, Glaubenseifer, Übereifer, Wetteifer
köken: From Old Swedish flit, from Middle Low German vlīt, vlît, from Old Saxon *flīt, from Proto-West Germanic *flīt, from Proto-Germanic *flītaz, for which compare *flītan (“to strive”). See also German Low German Fliet, Saterland Frisian Fliet, Dutch vlijt, Danish flid, Norwegian Bokmål flid, Norwegian Nynorsk flit, and German Fleiß, Fleiss.
där flitens lampa brinner
Byråkrater, de har det bra. De stormtrivs på jobbet var dag. De skickar små fax hit och dit med ambition och mycket flit.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē- Latin dicō Latin dēdicō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin dēdicātiōlbor. Polish dedykacja Learned borrowing from Latin dēdicātiō.