Where does “japanintähystäjä” come from?
japanintähystäjä (Finnish) comes from Finnish tähystäjä, from Finnish tähystää, from Finnish tähti, from Swedish täkt, from Swedish tå, from Swedish taga, from Old Swedish taka, from Old Norse taka — to touch.
japanintähystäjä (Finnish): Japanese sandfish, sailfin sandfish, Arctoscopus japonicus commercially important trachiniform fish found the Sea of Japan and the Okhotsk Sea
Definitions
- Japanese sandfish, sailfin sandfish, Arctoscopus japonicus commercially important trachiniform fish found the Sea of Japan and the Okhotsk Sea
Ancestry of “japanintähystäjä”, step by step
japanintähystäjä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish tähystäjä
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | tähystäjä | lookout, spotter |
| 2 | Finnish | tähystää | to keep a lookout; to examine with an endoscope |
| 3 | Finnish | tähti | star; a famous person, celebrity, star; a white... |
| 4 | Swedish | täkt | a quarry |
| 5 | Swedish | tå | toe; a body part |
| 6 | Swedish | taga | Dated form of ta |
| 7 | Old Swedish | taka | to touch, reach; to grasp, seize; to take, bring |
| 8 | Old Norse | taka | to take; taking, capture; taking, seizing |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | tēkaną | to touch; to grasp |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | deh₁g- | to touch |