Where does “kalabaliikki” come from?
kalabaliikki (Finnish) comes from Swedish kalabalik, from Ottoman Turkish قالابالق, from Ottoman Turkish ـلق, from Proto-Turkic *-lik.
kalabaliikki (Finnish): disorder; skirmish
Ancestry of “kalabaliikki”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Swedish | kalabalik | a tumult, a riot, a disorder, chaos |
| 2 | Ottoman Turkish | قالابالق | — |
| 3 | Ottoman Turkish | ـلق | -ness |
| 4 | Proto-Turkic | *-lik | — |