Where does “gondoli” come from?
gondoli (Finnish) comes from Swedish gondol, from French gondole, from Italian gondola, from Venetian góndoła, from Greek κοντούρα, from Italian contorno, from French contour, from French contourner — resin.
gondoli (Finnish): gondola Venetian boat
Definitions
- gondola Venetian boat
Ancestry of “gondoli”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | gondol | gondola |
| 2 | French | gondole | gondola |
| 3 | Italian | gondola | gondola; nacelle; pod |
| 4 | Venetian | góndoła | gondola |
| 5 | Greek | κοντούρα | the finish of a design; outline |
| 6 | Italian | contorno | contour, outline; vegetables; first-person... |
| 7 | French | contour | contour |
| 8 | French | contourner | to circumvent, to bypass, to skirt around; to... |
| 9 | Vulgar Latin | contornare | — |
| 10 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 11 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 15 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 16 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 17 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 18 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 19 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |