Where does “leijukuivaus” come from?
leijukuivaus (Finnish) comes from Finnish leijua, from Finnish leijata, from English lay, from English Lee, from Irish Laoi, from Middle Irish láed, from English loid, from English celluloid.
leijukuivaus (Finnish): airborne web-drying, suspending drying method of drying paper while the paper floats in the air during the process; used in production of thermal paper which might get damaged of touching parts of the machine
Definitions
- airborne web-drying, suspending drying method of drying paper while the paper floats in the air during the process; used in production of thermal paper which might get damaged of touching parts of the machine
Ancestry of “leijukuivaus”, step by step
leijukuivaus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish leijua
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | leijua | to hover, levitate, float in the air |
| 2 | Finnish | leijata | Alternative form of leijailla; to design a layout |
| 3 | English | lay | To place down in a position of rest, or in a... |
| 4 | English | Lee | for someone who lived near a meadow (the Anglo-Saxon for meadow being ley or leag) |
| 5 | Irish | Laoi | lay, song |
| 6 | Middle Irish | láed | — |
| 7 | English | loid | A lock-picking tool made from a piece of... |
| 8 | English | celluloid | Any of a variety of thermoplastics created from... |
| 9 | English | cellulose | A complex carbohydrate that forms the main... |
| 10 | French | cellulose | cellulose |
| 11 | French | cellule | cell; table cell |
| 12 | Latin | cellula | small room, especially that of a slave; humble... |
| 13 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 15 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |