Where does “ei millään tavalla” come from?
ei millään tavalla (Finnish) comes from Finnish ei mikään, from Finnish mikään, from Finnish -kään, from Finnish laji, from Old Swedish slagh, from Middle Low German slach, from Old Saxon slag, from Proto-West Germanic slagi — to hit; strike; to hit, strike, throw; to hit,...
ei millään tavalla (Finnish): no way, no manner, nowise, nohow, not in any...
Definitions
- no way, no manner, nowise, nohow, not in any...
Ancestry of “ei millään tavalla”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | ei mikään | nothing, not anything; nowhere, not anywhere;... |
| 2 | Finnish | mikään | Anything, any; Nothing, not ... anything, no |
| 3 | Finnish | -kään | — |
| 4 | Finnish | laji | kind, sort; species; sport |
| 5 | Old Swedish | slagh | — |
| 6 | Middle Low German | slach | — |
| 7 | Old Saxon | slag | — |
| 8 | Proto-West Germanic | slagi | blow, strike |
| 9 | Swedish | slagg | — |
| 10 | Low German | slagge | — |
| 11 | Middle Low German | slagge | — |
| 12 | Middle Low German | slān | to hit, strike |
| 13 | Old Saxon | slāhan | — |
| 14 | Proto-West Germanic | slahan | to hit, to strike; to kill |
| 15 | Proto-Germanic | slahaną | to hit, to strike; to kill |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | slak- | to hit; strike; to hit, strike, throw; to hit,... |