Where does “aluskimono” come from?
aluskimono (Finnish) comes from Finnish kimono, from Japanese 着物, from Japanese 物, from Japanese 物言い, from Japanese 物言う — to talk.
aluskimono (Finnish): An under-kimono
Ancestry of “aluskimono”, step by step
aluskimono traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish kimono
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kimono | kimono |
| 2 | Japanese | 着物 | a kimono |
| 3 | Japanese | 物 | thing; story, genre |
| 4 | Japanese | 物言い | a way of speaking, wording |
| 5 | Japanese | 物言う | to talk |
via Finnish alus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | alus | vessel, craft, ship; underlay, base; subject |
| 2 | Finnish | ala | area, field, domain; field, discipline; industry,... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | ala | lower; under |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | ëla | below |