Where does “pætursmessa” come from?
pætursmessa (Faroese) comes from Faroese Pætur, from Old Norse Pétr, from Latin Petrus, from Indonesian penembak, from Indonesian tembak, from Malay tembak, from Malay timbak, from Proto-Malayic timbak.
pætursmessa (Faroese): the feast of the Chair of St. Peter
Definitions
- the feast of the Chair of St. Peter
Ancestry of “pætursmessa”, step by step
pætursmessa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Faroese Pætur
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Faroese | Pætur | Peter |
| 2 | Old Norse | Pétr | — |
| 3 | Latin | Petrus | Peter |
| 4 | Indonesian | penembak | shooter |
| 5 | Indonesian | tembak | to shoot to fire a shot |
| 6 | Malay | tembak | to shoot |
| 7 | Malay | timbak | Obsolete form of tembak |
| 8 | Proto-Malayic | timbak | — |
| 9 | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | ti(m)bak | — |
via Faroese messa
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Faroese | messa | mass, service; holiday; mess |
| 2 | Old Norse | messa | mass, church service; to say mass |
| 3 | Latin | missa | Mass; Christian eucharistic liturgy; nominative... |
| 4 | Latin | missum | accusative supine of mittō; inflection of... |
| 5 | Latin | mittō | to send, dispatch, cause to go, let go, release, discharge |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | meitō | to put forth, put out |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | meyth₂- | to hurt; to exchange, remove; to replace, to... |