Where does “jazztanssi” come from?
jazztanssi (Finnish) comes from Finnish tanssi, from Swedish dans, from Old French dance, from Old French dancier, from Vulgar Latin *dantiāre.
jazztanssi (Finnish): jazz dance
Definitions
- jazz dance
Ancestry of “jazztanssi”, step by step
jazztanssi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish tanssi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | tanssi | dance; Third-person singular indicative past form... |
| 2 | Swedish | dans | dance |
| 3 | Old French | dance | dance |
| 4 | Old French | dancier | to dance |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | *dantiāre | — |
via Finnish jazz
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | jazz | jazz style of music |
| 2 | English | Jazz | A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation |
| 3 | English | Jaz | or any of its variant spellings |