Where does “kreolikieli” come from?
kreolikieli (Finnish) comes from Finnish kreoli, from French créole, from Spanish criollo, from Portuguese crioulo, from Portuguese cria, from Portuguese criar, from Old Portuguese criar, from Latin creō — army.
kreolikieli (Finnish): creole
Definitions
- creole
Ancestry of “kreolikieli”, step by step
kreolikieli traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish kreoli
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kreoli | creole |
| 2 | French | créole | Creole; creole language |
| 3 | Spanish | criollo | creole; unmixed European-descended Latin... |
| 4 | Portuguese | crioulo | criollo; a slave born at the house of his master;... |
| 5 | Portuguese | cria | young; offspring; kid; young'un; someone who is... |
| 6 | Portuguese | criar | to create, to put into existence; to invent; to... |
| 7 | Old Portuguese | criar | to raise |
| 8 | Latin | creō | to create, to give existence to, to form, to make, to produce, to originate out of other materials or out of nihility (transitively) |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱer- | to grow, to make grow, to nourish; to plait,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kr̥- | to turn, to bend |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ker- | army |