Where does “deekkari” come from?
deekkari (Finnish) comes from Finnish teekkari, from Finnish tekniikka, from Swedish teknik, from French technique, from Latin technicus, from Ancient Greek τεχνικός, from Ancient Greek τέχνη, from Ancient Greek -λογία — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
deekkari (Finnish): A student who spends so much time partying that...
Definitions
- A student who spends so much time partying that...
Ancestry of “deekkari”, step by step
deekkari traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish teekkari
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | teekkari | A person studying for the degree of... |
| 2 | Finnish | tekniikka | technology; technique; method |
| 3 | Swedish | teknik | a technique; technology |
| 4 | French | technique | technical; technique, technology |
| 5 | Latin | technicus | technical |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | τεχνικός | technical; artistic, skillful; of or pertaining... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | τέχνη | craft, skill, trade; art; cunning, wile |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | -λογία | Base for nouns denoting the study of something,... |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | λόγος | That which is said: word, sentence, speech,... |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | λέγω | I put in order, arrange, gather; I choose, count,... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |
via Finnish deeku
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | deeku | drunkard |
| 2 | Finnish | deekis | A state of personal decline, especially one caused by alcoholism |
| 3 | Swedish | dekis | dilapidation |
| 4 | Swedish | -is | Suffix that gives a familiar, and to some extent... |
| 5 | Latin | -is | suffixed to the root of nouns in composition,... |
| 6 | Latin | -a | suffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -ā | Forms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases |