Where does “matonkude” come from?
matonkude (Finnish) comes from Finnish matto, from Swedish mätta, from Swedish a, from Swedish avlopp, from Swedish lopp, from Swedish löpa, from Old Swedish løpa, from Old Norse hlaupa.
matonkude (Finnish): carpet rag strips of fabric cut from old or discarded clothes and other fabrics for the purpose of rugmaking
Definitions
- carpet rag strips of fabric cut from old or discarded clothes and other fabrics for the purpose of rugmaking
Ancestry of “matonkude”, step by step
matonkude traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish matto
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | matto | carpet, mat, rug; mat; mat, blasting mat |
| 2 | Swedish | mätta | to feed, to fill, to make full, to saturate |
| 3 | Swedish | a | from |
| 4 | Swedish | avlopp | a drain; sewage |
| 5 | Swedish | lopp | a race (running competition or (in an extended sense) other speed competition, like in English) |
| 6 | Swedish | löpa | to run along, stretch; to run, to move quickly... |
| 7 | Old Swedish | løpa | to run |
| 8 | Old Norse | hlaupa | to leap, jump, spring |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | hlaupaną | to jump forward, to leap |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | klaup- | — |
via Finnish kude
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kude | weft; weft, fill, filling; attire, clothes |
| 2 | Finnish | kutoa | to weave; to knit |
| 3 | Finnish | -e | Used for forming nouns from verbs or adjectives |
| 4 | Finnish | hartia | shoulder |
| 5 | Serbo-Croatian | hartija | paper |
| 6 | Greek | χαρτί | paper |
| 7 | Koine Greek | χαρτίον | paper, papyrus |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | χάρτης | sheet of paper, paper; book |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | χαράσσω | to sharpen; to engrave, carve, write, draw, stamp |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵʰer- | to yearn for; to enclose; bowels, intestines |