Where does “leijupatja” come from?
leijupatja (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.
Ancestry of “leijupatja”, step by step
leijupatja 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 | — |