Where does “design-päihde” come from?
design-päihde (Finnish) comes from Finnish päihde, from Finnish päihtyä, from Finnish -htua, from Finnish -tua, from Ido tu, from English thou, from English thousand, from Middle English thousend — to swell; to crowd; to be strong.
design-päihde (Finnish): designer drug
Definitions
- designer drug
Ancestry of “design-päihde”, step by step
design-päihde traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish päihde
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | päihde | intoxicant, psychoactive drug |
| 2 | Finnish | päihtyä | To get drunk, to become intoxicated |
| 3 | Finnish | -htua | Forms translative verbs, often emphasizing the... |
| 4 | Finnish | -tua | Forms inchoative or passive intransitive verbs... |
| 5 | Ido | tu | you singular, thou |
| 6 | English | thou | Nominative singular of ye; To address using the... |
| 7 | English | thousand | A numerical value equal to 1,000 = 10 × 100 = 10 |
| 8 | Middle English | thousend | A thousand; 1000 |
| 9 | Old English | þūsend | thousand |
| 10 | Proto-West Germanic | þūsundi | thousand |
| 11 | Proto-Germanic | þūsundī | a thousand |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | tuHsont- | thousand |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | tewh₂- | to swell; to crowd; to be strong |
via Finnish design
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | design | design |
| 2 | English | design | A specification of an object or process,... |
| 3 | Middle English | designen | — |
| 4 | Old French | designer | — |
| 5 | Latin | dēsignō | to mark |
| 6 | Latin | dē- | of; from |
| 7 | Latin | dē | of; concerning; about |
| 8 | Latin | post | behind; after, since, besides, except; behind,... |
| 9 | Latin | poste | ablative singular of postis |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | posti | behind, after |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | pósti | after |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | pós | afterwards, post; by, at |