Where does “joulukuusenpallo” come from?
joulukuusenpallo (Finnish) comes from Finnish joulukuusi, from Swedish julgran, from Swedish jul, from Swedish juli, from Latin Iūlius, from Latin iuppiter, from Proto-Italic djous patēr, from Proto-Italic *djous — to be bright; sky, heaven.
joulukuusenpallo (Finnish): Christmas bauble
Definitions
- Christmas bauble
Ancestry of “joulukuusenpallo”, step by step
joulukuusenpallo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish joulukuusi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | joulukuusi | a spruce Christmas tree |
| 2 | Swedish | julgran | Christmas tree |
| 3 | Swedish | jul | Christmas; July; Abbreviation of juli |
| 4 | Swedish | juli | July |
| 5 | Latin | Iūlius | Of the gens Julia, a patrician Roman family |
| 6 | Latin | iuppiter | Jupiter god of the sky and ruler of the Roman pantheon |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | djous patēr | Jupiter |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | *djous | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | dyḗws | sky, heaven; sky god |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | dyéws | sky, heaven |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | dyew- | to be bright; sky, heaven |