Where does “lentopallo” come from?

lentopallo (Finnish) comes from Finnish lento, from Italian lento, from Spanish lento, from Galician -ura, from Latin -ura, from Latin -tūra — ing, -ure, -work.

lentopallo (Finnish): volleyball

Definitions

  1. volleyball

Ancestry of “lentopallo”, step by step

lentopallo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish lento

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

via Finnish pallo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpalloball; balloon; orb, sphere, globe
2Proto-Germanicballôball
3Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰel-to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to...
4Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰōl-—

Words derived from “lentopallo”

Every word from Latin -tūra →Every word from Galician -ura →Every word from Spanish lento →