Where does “Iijoki” come from?
Iijoki (Finnish) comes from Finnish ii, from Latin I, from Etruscan 𐌉, from Ancient Greek Ι, from Phoenician 𐤉, from Egyptian 𓂝.
Ancestry of “Iijoki”, step by step
Iijoki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish ii
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | ii | The name of the Latin-script letter I |
| 2 | Latin | I | i |
| 3 | Etruscan | 𐌉 | — |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | Ι | The number one in Greek numerals resp. Attic... |
| 5 | Phoenician | 𐤉 | yod; yodh |
| 6 | Egyptian | 𓂝 | — |
via Finnish joki
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | joki | river |
| 2 | Finnish | sokeus | blindness |
| 3 | Finnish | sokea | blind |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | sokeda | blind |