Where does “kaulauslauta” come from?
kaulauslauta (Finnish) comes from Finnish kaulaus, from Finnish kaulata, from Swedish kavla, from Swedish a, from Swedish avlopp, from Swedish lopp, from Swedish löpa, from Old Swedish løpa.
kaulauslauta (Finnish): mangle board a tool historically used to press laundry that was used with a mangle roller
Definitions
- mangle board a tool historically used to press laundry that was used with a mangle roller
Ancestry of “kaulauslauta”, step by step
kaulauslauta traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish kaulaus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kaulaus | girdling a tree |
| 2 | Finnish | kaulata | To girdle a tree; To mangle linen in order to... |
| 3 | Swedish | kavla | to roll (with a rolling pin) |
| 4 | Swedish | a | from |
| 5 | Swedish | avlopp | a drain; sewage |
| 6 | Swedish | lopp | a race (running competition or (in an extended sense) other speed competition, like in English) |
| 7 | Swedish | löpa | to run along, stretch; to run, to move quickly... |
| 8 | Old Swedish | løpa | to run |
| 9 | Old Norse | hlaupa | to leap, jump, spring |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | hlaupaną | to jump forward, to leap |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | klaup- | — |