Where does “hörönauru” come from?
hörönauru (Finnish) comes from Finnish nauru, from English Nauru, from German Nauru, from Nauruan Naoero.
hörönauru (Finnish): guffaw
Ancestry of “hörönauru”, step by step
hörönauru traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish nauru
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | nauru | Laughter, laugh; The Nauru language |
| 2 | English | Nauru | Nauruan, the language of Nauru |
| 3 | German | Nauru | — |
| 4 | Nauruan | Naoero | — |
via Finnish höröttää
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | höröttää | to chortle |
| 2 | Finnish | ottaa | to take; to take, ingest or drink; to deprive of,... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | vottadak | to take |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | wendʰ- | to wind, to turn |