Where does “bahianpiikkirotta” come from?
bahianpiikkirotta (Finnish) comes from Finnish piikkirotta, from Finnish rotta, from Old Swedish rotta, from Middle Low German rotte, from Proto-Germanic rattaz, from Proto-Indo-European Hreh₃d- — to scrape.
bahianpiikkirotta (Finnish): briste-spined rat, a species of spiny rat native...
Definitions
- briste-spined rat, a species of spiny rat native...
Ancestry of “bahianpiikkirotta”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | piikkirotta | spiny rat |
| 2 | Finnish | rotta | rat; unemployed person living on welfare |
| 3 | Old Swedish | rotta | — |
| 4 | Middle Low German | rotte | — |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | rattaz | rat |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | Hreh₃d- | to scrape |