Where does “lentoambulanssi” come from?

lentoambulanssi (Finnish) comes from Finnish ambulanssi, from French ambulance, from French ambulant, from Latin ambulans, from Latin -ns, from Proto-Indo-European -ónts, from Hungarian önt, from Hungarian ön — sound, voice.

lentoambulanssi (Finnish): air ambulance

Definitions

  1. air ambulance

Ancestry of “lentoambulanssi”, step by step

lentoambulanssi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish ambulanssi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishambulanssiambulance
2Frenchambulanceambulance
3Frenchambulantwalking, strolling; present participle of ambuler
4Latinambulanstraversing, traveling; walking
5Latin-ns-ing; ending of the present active participle
6Proto-Indo-European-óntsDerives nouns denoting body parts
7Hungarianöntto pour; to cast; accusative singular of ön
8Hungarianönyou
9Hungarianön-self-
10Turkishönfront
11Ottoman Turkishاوكvoice (of human or animal); sound
12Proto-Turkicǖnsound, voice

via Finnish lento

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlentoflying, flight; flight; lento
2Italianlentoslow
3Spanishlentoslow
4Galician-ura-ness
5Latin-uraSuffix forming abstract nouns from adjectives
6Latin-tūraing, -ure, -work
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