Where does “kompuroiminen” come from?
kompuroiminen (Finnish) comes from Finnish kompuroida, from Finnish kompura, from Finnish kompressori, from English compressor, from English compress, from Middle French compresse, from Late Latin compressare, from Latin compressus — a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden...
Ancestry of “kompuroiminen”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kompuroida | to stumble |
| 2 | Finnish | kompura | clumsy, gawky, hobbling |
| 3 | Finnish | kompressori | compressor device that produces pressure or compresses gases |
| 4 | English | compressor | A device that produces pressure, such as a gas... |
| 5 | English | compress | To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or... |
| 6 | Middle French | compresse | — |
| 7 | Late Latin | compressare | to press hard/together |
| 8 | Latin | compressus | compressed, restrained, repressed |
| 9 | Latin | comprimō | to compress (squeeze together) |
| 10 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 11 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 12 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 16 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 17 | Middle Dutch | kitte | a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden... |