Where does “kauppatori” come from?
kauppatori (Finnish) comes from Finnish tori, from Old Swedish torgh, from Proto-Brythonic *torx, from Latin torquis, from Latin torqueō, from Proto-Indo-European terkʷ- — to turn, spin.
kauppatori (Finnish): marketplace
Ancestry of “kauppatori”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | tori | market, market square; town square; forum |
| 2 | Old Swedish | torgh | — |
| 3 | Proto-Brythonic | *torx | — |
| 4 | Latin | torquis | chaplet; collar/necklace of twisted metal ,... |
| 5 | Latin | torqueō | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | terkʷ- | to turn, spin |