Where does “matriisielementti” come from?
matriisielementti (Finnish) comes from Finnish matriisi, from Swedish matris, from Swedish ris, from Old Norse rís, from Middle Low German rīs, from Old French ris, from Italian riso, from Latin rīsus.
matriisielementti (Finnish): matrix coefficient, matrix element
Definitions
- matrix coefficient, matrix element
Ancestry of “matriisielementti”, step by step
matriisielementti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish matriisi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | matriisi | matrix |
| 2 | Swedish | matris | matrix; rectangular arrangement of terms; matrix;... |
| 3 | Swedish | ris | small shrubs, such as blueberry and lingonberry,... |
| 4 | Old Norse | rís | — |
| 5 | Middle Low German | rīs | — |
| 6 | Old French | ris | reef |
| 7 | Italian | riso | laughter, laugh; rice; past participle of ridere |
| 8 | Latin | rīsus | laughed at, ridiculed, mocked, having been ridiculed |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | ὄρυζα | rice |
| 10 | Proto-Iranian | *wrinǰiš | — |
via Finnish elementti
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | elementti | element; prefab |
| 2 | Swedish | element | element; basic building block of matter in... |
| 3 | Latin | elementum | one of four elements that composed the world;... |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | στοιχεῖον | one of a row; one of a series, a component part,... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | στοῖχος | row in an ascending series; a line of poles... |
| 6 | Proto-Hellenic | stóikʰos | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | stóygʰ-os | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | steygʰ- | to go; to climb |