Where does “CD-ROM-peli” come from?

CD-ROM-peli (Finnish) comes from Finnish peli, from Middle Low German spel, from Old Saxon spil, from Proto-West Germanic spil — dance; game, exercise.

CD-ROM-peli (Finnish): CD-ROM game

Definitions

  1. CD-ROM game

Ancestry of “CD-ROM-peli”, step by step

CD-ROM-peli traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish peli

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpeligame; match, game; game; tool, means, implement,...
2Middle Low Germanspel—
3Old Saxonspil—
4Proto-West Germanicspildance; game, exercise

via Finnish CD-ROM

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishCD-ROMCD-ROM
2EnglishCD-ROMcompact disk - read only memory: an optical disc...
Every word from Proto-West Germanic spil →Every word from Old Saxon spil →Every word from Middle Low German spel →