Where does “kansliapäällikkö” come from?
kansliapäällikkö (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.
kansliapäällikkö (Finnish): chief of staff, chancellor; chancellor
Definitions
- chief of staff, chancellor; chancellor
Ancestry of “kansliapäällikkö”, step by step
kansliapäällikkö 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 |
via Finnish päällikkö
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | päällikkö | chief; head; leader |
| 2 | Finnish | -ikko | Forms nouns for groups of a particular number,... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -ikko | Forms nouns indicating a group of things |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -i- | Plural number marker in other cases than the nominative (and optionally the genitive) |