Where does “läpipääsemätön” come from?
läpipääsemätön (Finnish) comes from Finnish läpi, from Tagalog lapi, from Spanish lápiz, from Italian lapis, from Latin lapis, from Proto-Italic *lapets — stone.
läpipääsemätön (Finnish): impenetrable, impassable, impregnable
Definitions
- impenetrable, impassable, impregnable
Ancestry of “läpipääsemätön”, step by step
läpipääsemätön traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish läpi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | läpi | hole window, shutter, door; mouth, hole; through |
| 2 | Tagalog | lapi | joining or attaching a part to a whole; affix |
| 3 | Spanish | lápiz | pencil |
| 4 | Italian | lapis | pencil; sanguine |
| 5 | Latin | lapis | a stone; a milestone; a boundary stone |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *lapets | stone |
via Finnish pääsemätön
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | pääsemätön | inaccessible; inescapable; negative participle of... |
| 2 | Finnish | -mätön | Front vowel variant of -maton |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -mat'oin | Forms the negative participle, which is used as an adjective |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -t'oin | -less |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -ktama | — |