Where does “laboratoriotakki” come from?
laboratoriotakki (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.
laboratoriotakki (Finnish): lab coat
Definitions
- lab coat
Ancestry of “laboratoriotakki”, step by step
laboratoriotakki 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 täkki
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | täkki | quilt US; duvet, continental quilt UK; doona Australia |
| 2 | Old Swedish | stakker | — |
| 3 | Old Norse | stafkarl | poor beggar |
| 4 | Old Norse | Karl | man |
| 5 | Proto-Norse | ᚲᚨᚱᛁᛚᚨᛉ | — |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | karilaz | free man, franklin; little man, young man |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | karaz | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵerh₂- | to grow old, to mature |