Where does “duunari” come from?
duunari (Finnish) comes from Finnish duuni, from Swedish dona, from Swedish a, from Swedish avlopp, from Swedish lopp, from Swedish löpa, from Old Swedish løpa, from Old Norse hlaupa.
duunari (Finnish): A manual worker
Definitions
- A manual worker
Ancestry of “duunari”, step by step
duunari traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish duuni
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | duuni | job, work |
| 2 | Swedish | dona | to do small house hold tasks, such as tidying up... |
| 3 | Swedish | a | from |
| 4 | Swedish | avlopp | a drain; sewage |
| 5 | Swedish | lopp | a race (running competition or (in an extended sense) other speed competition, like in English) |
| 6 | Swedish | löpa | to run along, stretch; to run, to move quickly... |
| 7 | Old Swedish | løpa | to run |
| 8 | Old Norse | hlaupa | to leap, jump, spring |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | hlaupaną | to jump forward, to leap |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | klaup- | — |