Where does “kansliakieli” come from?
kansliakieli (Finnish) comes from Finnish kanslia, from Swedish kansli, from German Kanzlei, from Middle High German kanzelie, from Latin cancellārius, from Latin cancelli, from Latin cancer, from Proto-Italic kankros — to cut, cut off, sever.
kansliakieli (Finnish): a kind of formal, stilted language once commonly used in official documents
Definitions
- a kind of formal, stilted language once commonly used in official documents
Ancestry of “kansliakieli”, step by step
kansliakieli traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish kanslia
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kanslia | office |
| 2 | Swedish | kansli | an office |
| 3 | German | Kanzlei | office; chancellery |
| 4 | Middle High German | kanzelie | — |
| 5 | Latin | cancellārius | A kind of porter, doorkeeper |
| 6 | Latin | cancelli | inflection of cancellus: ## genitive singular ##... |
| 7 | Latin | cancer | a crab; a tumor, cancer; a lattice, grid, or... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kankros | crab |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | karkros | enclosure, barrier |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kr̥-kr̥- | circular |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)ker- | to cut off; to turn, bend |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | sek- | to cut, cut off, sever |