Where does “Karevaara” come from?
Karevaara (Finnish) comes from Finnish Kare, from French carré, from Middle French quarré, from Old French quarré, from Latin quadrātus, from Latin quadrō, from Latin quādrus, from Latin quattŭor — and.
Ancestry of “Karevaara”, step by step
Karevaara traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish Kare
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | Kare | ripple small waves |
| 2 | French | carré | square; quadratic; straightforward |
| 3 | Middle French | quarré | — |
| 4 | Old French | quarré | square |
| 5 | Latin | quadrātus | square, squared, having been made square, made into a square shape |
| 6 | Latin | quadrō | to make four-cornered, square, make square |
| 7 | Latin | quādrus | square |
| 8 | Latin | quattŭor | four; 4 |
| 9 | Portuguese | quarto | ordinal form of quatro; fourth; quarter; fourth;... |
| 10 | Old Portuguese | quarto | quarter |
| 11 | Latin | quārtus | fourth |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷeturtos | — |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷetwóres | four |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷe- | and |