Where does “alkuverryttely” come from?
alkuverryttely (Finnish) comes from Finnish verryttely, from Finnish verrytellä, from Finnish verryttää, from Finnish vertyä, from Finnish -tua, from Ido tu, from English thou, from English thousand — to swell; to crowd; to be strong.
alkuverryttely (Finnish): warm-up act of exercising or stretching in preparation for strenuous activity
Definitions
- warm-up act of exercising or stretching in preparation for strenuous activity
Ancestry of “alkuverryttely”, step by step
alkuverryttely traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish verryttely
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | verryttely | warm-up |
| 2 | Finnish | verrytellä | to warm up |
| 3 | Finnish | verryttää | to stretch, to flex, to limber |
| 4 | Finnish | vertyä | to become refreshed, to become flexible |
| 5 | Finnish | -tua | Forms inchoative or passive intransitive verbs... |
| 6 | Ido | tu | you singular, thou |
| 7 | English | thou | Nominative singular of ye; To address using the... |
| 8 | English | thousand | A numerical value equal to 1,000 = 10 × 100 = 10 |
| 9 | Middle English | thousend | A thousand; 1000 |
| 10 | Old English | þūsend | thousand |
| 11 | Proto-West Germanic | þūsundi | thousand |
| 12 | Proto-Germanic | þūsundī | a thousand |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | tuHsont- | thousand |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | tewh₂- | to swell; to crowd; to be strong |