Where does “gondolihissi” come from?
gondolihissi (Finnish) comes from Finnish gondoli, from Swedish gondol, from French gondole, from Italian gondola, from Venetian góndoła, from Greek κοντούρα, from Italian contorno, from French contour — whale, sea monster; abyss.
gondolihissi (Finnish): gondola lift
Definitions
- gondola lift
Ancestry of “gondolihissi”, step by step
gondolihissi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish gondoli
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | gondoli | gondola Venetian boat |
| 2 | Swedish | gondol | gondola |
| 3 | French | gondole | gondola |
| 4 | Italian | gondola | gondola; nacelle; pod |
| 5 | Venetian | góndoła | gondola |
| 6 | Greek | κοντούρα | the finish of a design; outline |
| 7 | Italian | contorno | contour, outline; vegetables; first-person... |
| 8 | French | contour | contour |
| 9 | French | contourner | to circumvent, to bypass, to skirt around; to... |
| 10 | Vulgar Latin | contornare | — |
| 11 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 12 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 16 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 17 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 18 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 19 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |