Where does “marssikapellimestari” come from?

marssikapellimestari (Finnish) comes from Finnish kapellimestari, from German Kapellmeister, from German Kapelle, from Middle High German kappelle, from Old High German kappella, from Latin cappella, from Latin -ella, from Latin -ellus — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

marssikapellimestari (Finnish): drum major

Definitions

  1. drum major

Ancestry of “marssikapellimestari”, step by step

marssikapellimestari traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kapellimestari

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkapellimestariconductor
2GermanKapellmeisterkapellmeister
3GermanKapellechapel; band, ensemble
4Middle High Germankappelle
5Old High Germankappella
6Latincappellachapel; choir
7Latin-ellainflection of -ellus: ## nominative/vocative...
8Latin-ellusAlternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine...
9Latin-ulusUsed to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating...
10Proto-Italic-olos
11Proto-Italic-elosForms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns
12Proto-Indo-European-e-lós
13Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots

via Finnish marssi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmarssimarch; Third-person singular indicative past form...
2Swedishmarscha march; a march; music written for marching; a...
3Frenchmarchémarket; deal, contract; past participle of...
4Frenchmarcherto walk; to travel; to move; to march; to work,...
5Middle Frenchmarcherto walk
6Old Frenchmarchierto walk; to travel by foot
7Frankishmarkōnto mark, mark out, to press with the foot
8Proto-Germanicmarkōnąto mark; to notice
9Proto-Germanicmarkōborder, boundary; region, area
10Proto-Indo-Europeanmorǵ-edge, boundary, border; frontier, border
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -lósEvery word from Latin -ulusEvery word from Latin -ellus