Where does “korttihai” come from?
korttihai (Finnish) comes from Finnish körtti, from Swedish kört, from Danish kort, from Low German kort, from German karte, from Middle High German karte, from Old French carte, from Latin charta — to yearn for; to enclose; bowels, intestines.
korttihai (Finnish): cardsharp, cardshark
Definitions
- cardsharp, cardshark
Ancestry of “korttihai”, step by step
korttihai traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish körtti
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | körtti | tail of a tailcoat |
| 2 | Swedish | kört | short |
| 3 | Danish | kort | short; brief; briefly |
| 4 | Low German | kort | a card |
| 5 | German | karte | card flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc |
| 6 | Middle High German | karte | — |
| 7 | Old French | carte | Alternative form of chartre |
| 8 | Latin | charta | papyrus, paper; poem, a writing; map |
| 9 | French | cartel | a cartel |
| 10 | Italian | cartello | sign, notice, placard, signboard; signpost, road... |
| 11 | Italian | carta | paper; map; menu |
| 12 | Latin | carta | papyrus; letter etc |
| 13 | Ancient Greek | χάρτης | sheet of paper, paper; book |
| 14 | Ancient Greek | χαράσσω | to sharpen; to engrave, carve, write, draw, stamp |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵʰer- | to yearn for; to enclose; bowels, intestines |
via Finnish hai
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | hai | shark; high card |
| 2 | Swedish | haj | shark |
| 3 | Dutch | haai | A shark, fish of the superorder Selachimorpha; A... |
| 4 | Vietnamese | hái | to pluck a plant or piece of fruit for later... |
| 5 | English | Hi | a short form of Hiram |
| 6 | English | high | Elevated, extending above a base or average... |
| 7 | Middle English | heigh | high; Alternative form of hey; Alternative form... |
| 8 | Old English | hēah | high, tall, lofty, high-class, exalted, sublime,... |
| 9 | Old English | hām | home; village, community; village, hamlet, manor,... |
| 10 | Proto-West Germanic | haim | home |
| 11 | Proto-Germanic | haimaz | home; house; village |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóymos | of the home, belonging to the family; village,... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱey- | to be lying down; to settle |