All Nordic languages: del (part) vs Slovenian: del

[zilic]

Recently i discovered that English: part in all Nordic languages "del" means.
Because in Croatian: dijel-ovi (parts) and in Slovenian "del" part means
I come to the question if these are Germanic loans or true cognates?
Do anybody know internet site with etimology of Nordic languges.

 

[jonquiliser]

No I don't know any online. But "del" seems to be related to "deal" and again apparantly related to Old Church Slavic – so maybe that can help you:

deal (n.1)
from O.E. dæl "part, share, quantity, amount," and its verbal derivative dælan "to divide, distribute, separate, share," from P.Gmc. *dailaz (cf. O.N. deild, O.Fris. del, Du. deel, O.H.G., Ger. teil, Goth. dails "part, share"), from PIE *dail- "to divide" (cf. O.C.S. delu "part," Lith. dalis).

 

[NorwegianNYC]

To add to that, in Sanskrit we find 'dala'.

Unfortunately, I know of no comprehensive book or website for Scandinavian etymology.
Norwegian and Danish etymological works are rare, but a Swedish one from 1922 is available online: http://runeberg.org/svetym/

 

[Ben Jamin]

It's highly unlikely that "del" could be imported to Slovenian from a Nordic language. German has "teil", not "del", so it's very probable that the two words are cognates.

 

[Wilma_Sweden]

Unfortunately, I know of no comprehensive book or website for Scandinavian etymology.
Norwegian and Danish etymological works are rare, but a Swedish one from 1922 is available online: http://runeberg.org/svetym/

The SAOB (Svenska Akademiens Ordbok) is available online, but only from A to Tyda. It does give etymology for most words but is not always easy to decipher. The NE dictionary (Nationalencyklopedin) gives very brief etymological information, but not always accessible to non-subscribers.
The SAOB shows pretty much the same cognates as jonquiliser quoted above.

 

[Ben Jamin]

To add to that, in Sanskrit we find 'dala'.

Unfortunately, I know of no comprehensive book or website for Scandinavian etymology.
Norwegian and Danish etymological works are rare, but a Swedish one from 1922 is available online: http://runeberg.org/svetym/

You can find some information about origin of words in : Oslo University's Dictionary online http://www.nob-ordbok.uio.no/perl/ordbok.cgi?OPP=&bokmaal=+&ordbok=bokmaal

 

[NoMoreMrIceGuy]

I'd like to point out that del does not apply for all the Nordic languages. In Icelandic a part is hlutur. We do on the other hand have the verb to part/divide as að deila.