Where does “kultamitalisti” come from?
kultamitalisti (Finnish) comes from Finnish mitalisti, from Finnish mitali, from Swedish medalj, from French médaille, from Italian medaglia, from Medieval Latin medalia, from Latin medialia, from Latin medialis — to put, to place; to locate.
kultamitalisti (Finnish): gold medalist
Definitions
- gold medalist
Ancestry of “kultamitalisti”, step by step
kultamitalisti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish mitalisti
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | mitalisti | medalist |
| 2 | Finnish | mitali | medal |
| 3 | Swedish | medalj | a medal |
| 4 | French | médaille | medal |
| 5 | Italian | medaglia | medal; third-person singular present indicative... |
| 6 | Medieval Latin | medalia | half a denarius |
| 7 | Latin | medialia | nominative neuter plural of mediālis; accusative... |
| 8 | Latin | medialis | medial; of or belonging to the middle |
| 9 | Latin | medius | middle; half; moderate |
| 10 | Latin | locus | place, spot; a passage of literature; "in the... |
| 11 | Old Latin | stlocus | — |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | stlokos | — |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | stel- | to put, to place; to locate |