Where does “konttorinhoitaja” come from?
konttorinhoitaja (Finnish) comes from Finnish konttori, from Swedish kontor, from Middle Low German kontôr, from Middle Dutch contoor, from Middle French contoir, from Middle French compter, from Old French compter, from Latin computāre — whale, sea monster; abyss.
konttorinhoitaja (Finnish): office manager
Definitions
- office manager
Ancestry of “konttorinhoitaja”, step by step
konttorinhoitaja traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish konttori
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | konttori | office |
| 2 | Swedish | kontor | office; building or room |
| 3 | Middle Low German | kontôr | commercial branch; writing room; counting... |
| 4 | Middle Dutch | contoor | — |
| 5 | Middle French | contoir | Alternative spelling of comptoir |
| 6 | Middle French | compter | to recount; to tell |
| 7 | Old French | compter | — |
| 8 | Latin | computāre | — |
| 9 | Latin | computō | to calculate, compute, reckon together |
| 10 | Latin | com- | allomorph of con- |
| 11 | Latin | con- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing... |
| 12 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 13 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 17 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 18 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 19 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 20 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |
via Finnish hoitaja
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | hoitaja | caretaker; carer, care-giver; nurse |
| 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 |