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
- drum major
Ancestry of “marssikapellimestari”, step by step
marssikapellimestari traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish kapellimestari
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kapellimestari | conductor |
| 2 | German | Kapellmeister | kapellmeister |
| 3 | German | Kapelle | chapel; band, ensemble |
| 4 | Middle High German | kappelle | — |
| 5 | Old High German | kappella | — |
| 6 | Latin | cappella | chapel; choir |
| 7 | Latin | -ella | inflection of -ellus: ## nominative/vocative... |
| 8 | Latin | -ellus | Alternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine... |
| 9 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
via Finnish marssi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | marssi | march; Third-person singular indicative past form... |
| 2 | Swedish | marsch | a march; a march; music written for marching; a... |
| 3 | French | marché | market; deal, contract; past participle of... |
| 4 | French | marcher | to walk; to travel; to move; to march; to work,... |
| 5 | Middle French | marcher | to walk |
| 6 | Old French | marchier | to walk; to travel by foot |
| 7 | Frankish | markōn | to mark, mark out, to press with the foot |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | markōną | to mark; to notice |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | markō | border, boundary; region, area |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | morǵ- | edge, boundary, border; frontier, border |