Where does “geokätköily” come from?
geokätköily (Finnish) comes from Finnish geokätköillä, from Finnish geokätkö, from English geocache, from English cache, from French caché, from French cacher, from Old French cachier, from Vulgar Latin coacticare — Deictic particle, here; Post-positional...
geokätköily (Finnish): geocaching pastime
Definitions
- geocaching pastime
Ancestry of “geokätköily”, step by step
geokätköily traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish geokätköillä
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | geokätköillä | to geocache; Adessive plural form of geokätkö |
| 2 | Finnish | geokätkö | geocache |
| 3 | English | geocache | A container hidden in a specific location during... |
| 4 | English | cache | A store of things that may be required in the... |
| 5 | French | caché | past participle of cacher; hidden |
| 6 | French | cacher | to hide; Alternative spelling of casher |
| 7 | Old French | cachier | to hide; Alternative form of chacier |
| 8 | Vulgar Latin | coacticare | present active infinitive of *coacticō |
| 9 | Latin | coactō | to compel, constrain, force |
| 10 | Latin | coactus | forced, compelled, having been forced; urged,... |
| 11 | Latin | cōgō | to collect, assemble, gather together |
| 12 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 13 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 14 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 15 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
via Finnish y
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | y | — |