Where does “keisarinviitta” come from?
keisarinviitta (Finnish) comes from Finnish keisari, from Old Swedish keysar, from Middle Low German keiser, from Old High German keisar, from Indonesian kaisar, from Dutch keizer, from Middle Dutch keiser, from Old Dutch keiser — hair.
keisarinviitta (Finnish): silver-washed fritillary
Definitions
- silver-washed fritillary
Ancestry of “keisarinviitta”, step by step
keisarinviitta traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish keisari
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | keisari | emperor |
| 2 | Old Swedish | keysar | emperor |
| 3 | Middle Low German | keiser | emperor |
| 4 | Old High German | keisar | emperor |
| 5 | Indonesian | kaisar | emperor; empress |
| 6 | Dutch | keizer | emperor |
| 7 | Middle Dutch | keiser | — |
| 8 | Old Dutch | keiser | emperor |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | kaisaraz | emperor |
| 10 | Latin | Caesar | Julius Caesar; emperor |
| 11 | Latin | caesaries | or hair |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | kéysero- | hair |
via Finnish viitta
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | viitta | sign; cape, cloak |
| 2 | Russian | свита | suite, escort, retinue, entourage; suite |
| 3 | German | Suite | suite hotel apartment consisting of several rooms |
| 4 | German | -ier | A noun-forming suffix, used especially to render... |
| 5 | French | -ier | used to form the names of trees bearing a... |
| 6 | Middle French | -er | Forms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs;... |
| 7 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 12 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |