Where does “kuskaus” come from?
kuskaus (Finnish) comes from Finnish kuskata, from Swedish kuska, from Swedish kusk, from German Kutscher, from German Kutsche, from French couché, from French coucher, from Middle French coucher — a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden...
kuskaus (Finnish): driving, transporting, conveying
Definitions
- driving, transporting, conveying
Ancestry of “kuskaus”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kuskata | To drive, convey |
| 2 | Swedish | kuska | to drive |
| 3 | Swedish | kusk | driver, coachman |
| 4 | German | Kutscher | coachman |
| 5 | German | Kutsche | carriage; coach; A large, old automobile in poor... |
| 6 | French | couché | past participle of coucher; in bed |
| 7 | French | coucher | to lay, to lay down; to put to bed, to put up; to... |
| 8 | Middle French | coucher | to put to bed; setting |
| 9 | Old French | couchier | to go to bed; to have sex; bedtime |
| 10 | Latin | collocō | to place, put, set in order, assign, arrange |
| 11 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 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 | Middle Dutch | kitte | a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden... |