Where does “lappendeken” come from?
lappendeken (Dutch) comes from Dutch lap, from Swedish läpp, from Old Swedish lapper, from Finnish lappalainen, from Finnish -läinen, from Finnish laji, from Old Swedish slagh, from Middle Low German slach — to hit.
lappendeken (Dutch): A blanket made of many different pieces of cloth...
Definitions
- A blanket made of many different pieces of cloth...
Ancestry of “lappendeken”, step by step
lappendeken traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch lap
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | lap | A rag, a piece of cloth; A patch, a piece of... |
| 2 | Swedish | läpp | lip |
| 3 | Old Swedish | lapper | — |
| 4 | Finnish | lappalainen | A Sami |
| 5 | Finnish | -läinen | Front vowel variant of -lainen |
| 6 | Finnish | laji | kind, sort; species; sport |
| 7 | Old Swedish | slagh | — |
| 8 | Middle Low German | slach | — |
| 9 | Old Saxon | slag | — |
| 10 | Proto-West Germanic | slagi | blow, strike |
| 11 | Swedish | slagg | slag metallurgical waste material |
| 12 | Low German | slagge | — |
| 13 | Middle Low German | slagge | — |
| 14 | Middle Low German | slān | to hit, strike |
| 15 | Old Saxon | slāhan | to hit |
via Dutch deken
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | deken | A blanket, warm textile cover; A blanket,... |
| 2 | Middle Dutch | deken | — |
| 3 | Proto-West Germanic | *dekan | dean |
| 4 | Latin | decānus | chief of ten people (in various contexts) |
| 5 | Latin | decem | ten; 10 |
| 6 | Latin | -nus | -an |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -nos | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -nós | Creates verbal adjectives from roots |