Where does “konekivääriampuja” come from?
konekivääriampuja (Finnish) comes from Finnish konekivääri, from German Maschinengewehr, from German Maschine, from French machine, from Middle French machine, from Latin māchina, from Ancient Greek μαχανά, from Ancient Greek μηχανή — to be able.
konekivääriampuja (Finnish): machine gunner, machine gun shooter
Definitions
- machine gunner, machine gun shooter
Ancestry of “konekivääriampuja”, step by step
konekivääriampuja traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish konekivääri
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | konekivääri | machine gun |
| 2 | German | Maschinengewehr | machine gun |
| 3 | German | Maschine | machine; engine; airplane |
| 4 | French | machine | machine, device; machine |
| 5 | Middle French | machine | machine; device |
| 6 | Latin | māchina | contrivance |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | μαχανά | Doric form of μηχᾰνή |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | μηχανή | contrivance, machine, device, gear; way, means |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | μῆχος | means, expedient, remedy |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | meǵʰ- | to be able |
via Finnish ampuja
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | ampuja | shooter; Partitive plural form of ampu |
| 2 | Finnish | jä | ice |
| 3 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | *ja | — |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | jahw | and, also |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | -hw | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | -hwe | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -kʷe | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |