Where does “kahvisato” come from?
kahvisato (Finnish) comes from Finnish kahvi, from Swedish kaffe, from German Kaffee, from French café, from Italian caffè, from Turkish kahve, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه, from Persian قهوه — wine; coffee; coffee shop, café.
kahvisato (Finnish): coffee crop coffee grown and harvested
Definitions
- coffee crop coffee grown and harvested
Ancestry of “kahvisato”, step by step
kahvisato traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish kahvi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kahvi | coffee |
| 2 | Swedish | kaffe | coffee |
| 3 | German | Kaffee | coffee; afternoon coffee, coffee and cake |
| 4 | French | café | coffee; coffee colour; public house |
| 5 | Italian | caffè | coffee; a café |
| 6 | Turkish | kahve | coffee |
| 7 | Ottoman Turkish | قهوه | coffee |
| 8 | Persian | قهوه | coffee |
| 9 | Arabic | قهوة | wine; coffee; coffee shop, café |
via Finnish sato
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | sato | harvest, crop |
| 2 | Finnish | sataa | to precipitate to have water in the air fall to the ground: to rain, snow, sleet, hail |
| 3 | North Frisian | iir | year |
| 4 | Old Frisian | iēr | — |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | jār | year |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | jērą | year; name of the J-rune |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | yeh₁r- | year |