Where does “lannansyöjä” come from?
lannansyöjä (Finnish) comes from Finnish lanta, from Esperanto lante, from Esperanto lanta, from Ido lenta, from French lent, from Italian lento, from Spanish lento, from Galician -ura — ing, -ure, -work.
lannansyöjä (Finnish): a dung-eating beetle
Definitions
- a dung-eating beetle
Ancestry of “lannansyöjä”, step by step
lannansyöjä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish lanta
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | lanta | Animal feces used as fertilizer; manure, dung;... |
| 2 | Esperanto | lante | slowly |
| 3 | Esperanto | lanta | slow |
| 4 | Ido | lenta | slow |
| 5 | French | lent | slow |
| 6 | Italian | lento | slow |
| 7 | Spanish | lento | slow |
| 8 | Galician | -ura | -ness |
| 9 | Latin | -ura | Suffix forming abstract nouns from adjectives |
| 10 | Latin | -tūra | ing, -ure, -work |