Where does “laboratoriohoitaja” come from?
laboratoriohoitaja (Finnish) comes from Finnish laboratorio, from Medieval Latin laboratorium, from Latin labotatorius, from Latin laborator, from Latin laboratus, from Latin laboro, from Latin labor, from Old Latin labos — fox.
laboratoriohoitaja (Finnish): (medical) laboratory technician
Definitions
- (medical) laboratory technician
Ancestry of “laboratoriohoitaja”, step by step
laboratoriohoitaja traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish laboratorio
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | laboratorio | a laboratory |
| 2 | Medieval Latin | laboratorium | laboratory |
| 3 | Latin | labotatorius | laborable |
| 4 | Latin | laborator | plowman, tiller of the soil |
| 5 | Latin | laboratus | produced, having been produced |
| 6 | Latin | laboro | I toil, labor; I endeavor, strive; I suffer, am... |
| 7 | Latin | labor | work; labour, toil; hardship, trouble, fatigue,... |
| 8 | Old Latin | labos | — |
| 9 | Romanian | labă | palm; paw |
| 10 | Hungarian | láb | leg; foot; support, stand |
| 11 | Proto-Uralic | luwe | bone |
| 12 | Proto-Iranian | *Hrawpācáh | fox |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | *Hrawpāćás | fox |
via Finnish hoitaja
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | hoitaja | caretaker; carer, care-giver; nurse |
| 2 | Finnish | jä | ice |
| 3 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | *ja | — |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | jahw | and, also |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | -hw | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | -hwe | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -kʷe | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |