Where does “lantanavetta” come from?
lantanavetta (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.
lantanavetta (Finnish): a simple barn or cowshed in which manure piles up on the floor and is cleaned up (for use as fertilizer) only a few times per year
Definitions
- a simple barn or cowshed in which manure piles up on the floor and is cleaned up (for use as fertilizer) only a few times per year
Ancestry of “lantanavetta”, step by step
lantanavetta 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 |