Where does “liittolukupari” come from?
liittolukupari (Finnish) comes from Finnish pari, from Swedish par, from English peer, from English pee, from English piss, from Middle English pisse, from Middle English pissen, from Old French pissier — I piss.
liittolukupari (Finnish): conjugate pair
Definitions
- conjugate pair
Ancestry of “liittolukupari”, step by step
liittolukupari traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish pari
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | pari | couple, pair; partner; battery cell |
| 2 | Swedish | par | a pair, a couple; a couple, two people who are... |
| 3 | English | peer | To look with difficulty, or as if searching for... |
| 4 | English | pee | Urine; To urinate; To drizzle |
| 5 | English | piss | Urine; An instance of pissing; Alcoholic... |
| 6 | Middle English | pisse | piss, urine; Alternative form of pissen |
| 7 | Middle English | pissen | To piss; to deliver urine from the genitals; To... |
| 8 | Old French | pissier | to piss; to excrete urine |
| 9 | Vulgar Latin | pissiare | present active infinitive of *pīssiō |
| 10 | Latin | pissio | I piss |
via Finnish liittoluku
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | liittoluku | complex conjugate |
| 2 | Finnish | luku | number, count, quantity; chapter; reading |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | luku | number, quantity |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | lukedak | to count; to read ? |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | luke- | to count |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |