Where does “massatapahtuma” come from?
massatapahtuma (Finnish) comes from Finnish tapahtuma, from Finnish tapahtua, from Finnish -htua, from Finnish -tua, from Ido tu, from English thou, from English thousand, from Middle English thousend — to swell; to crowd; to be strong.
massatapahtuma (Finnish): mass event, mass gathering event or occasion planned to have a large attendance
Definitions
- mass event, mass gathering event or occasion planned to have a large attendance
Ancestry of “massatapahtuma”, step by step
massatapahtuma traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish tapahtuma
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | tapahtuma | event, happening, occurrence, incident; Short for... |
| 2 | Finnish | tapahtua | To happen, take place, occur, come about, come up |
| 3 | Finnish | -htua | Forms translative verbs, often emphasizing the... |
| 4 | Finnish | -tua | Forms inchoative or passive intransitive verbs... |
| 5 | Ido | tu | you singular, thou |
| 6 | English | thou | Nominative singular of ye; To address using the... |
| 7 | English | thousand | A numerical value equal to 1,000 = 10 × 100 = 10 |
| 8 | Middle English | thousend | A thousand; 1000 |
| 9 | Old English | þūsend | thousand |
| 10 | Proto-West Germanic | þūsundi | thousand |
| 11 | Proto-Germanic | þūsundī | a thousand |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | tuHsont- | thousand |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | tewh₂- | to swell; to crowd; to be strong |
via Finnish massa
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | massa | mass; bulk; paste |
| 2 | Swedish | mässa | a mass; an exhibition, an expo; to mass, to... |
| 3 | Old Norse | messa | mass, church service; to say mass |
| 4 | Latin | missa | Mass; Christian eucharistic liturgy; nominative... |
| 5 | Latin | missum | accusative supine of mittō; inflection of... |
| 6 | Latin | mittō | to send, dispatch, cause to go, let go, release, discharge |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | meitō | to put forth, put out |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | meyth₂- | to hurt; to exchange, remove; to replace, to... |