Where does “ei missään nimessä” come from?
ei missään nimessä (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 missään nimessä (Finnish): by no means, not by any means
Definitions
- by no means, not by any means
Ancestry of “ei missään nimessä”, step by step
ei missään nimessä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish ei mikään
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | ei mikään | nothing, not anything; nowhere, not anywhere;... |
| 2 | Finnish | mikään | anything, any; with negative nothing, no |
| 3 | Finnish | -kään | neither, not... either also not |
| 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 | slag metallurgical waste material |
| 10 | Low German | slagge | — |
| 11 | Middle Low German | slagge | — |
| 12 | Middle Low German | slān | to hit, strike |
| 13 | Old Saxon | slāhan | to hit |
| 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,... |
via Finnish nimessä
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | nimessä | Inessive singular form of nimi |