Where does “Murtajadivisioona” come from?
Murtajadivisioona (Finnish) comes from Finnish divisioona, from Old French division, from Latin divisio, from Latin -tiō, from Latin dissertātiō, from Latin dissertus, from Latin disserere, from Latin dis- — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
Murtajadivisioona (Finnish): "Breaker Division", nickname of Finland's 2nd Infantry Division in the Continuation War fought between the Soviet Union and Finland in 1941-1944
Definitions
- "Breaker Division", nickname of Finland's 2nd Infantry Division in the Continuation War fought between the Soviet Union and Finland in 1941-1944
Ancestry of “Murtajadivisioona”, step by step
Murtajadivisioona traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish divisioona
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | divisioona | division |
| 2 | Old French | division | — |
| 3 | Latin | divisio | division; distribution |
| 4 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 5 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 6 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 7 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 8 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 9 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 10 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
via Finnish murtaja
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | murtaja | breaker; cracker; Short for jäänmurtaja |
| 2 | Finnish | jä | ice |
| 3 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | *ja | — |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | jahw | and, also |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | -hw | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | -hwe | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -kʷe | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |