Where does “matto” come from?
matto (Finnish) comes from Swedish mätta, from Swedish a, from Swedish avlopp, from Swedish lopp, from Swedish löpa, from Old Swedish løpa, from Old Norse hlaupa, from Proto-Germanic hlaupaną.
matto (Finnish): carpet, mat, rug; mat; mat, blasting mat
Definitions
- carpet, mat, rug; mat; mat, blasting mat
Ancestry of “matto”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Swedish | mätta | to feed, to fill, to make full, to saturate |
| 2 | Swedish | a | from |
| 3 | Swedish | avlopp | a drain; sewage |
| 4 | Swedish | lopp | a run, trace, track, path, a running ... |
| 5 | Swedish | löpa | to run along, stretch; to run, to move quickly... |
| 6 | Old Swedish | løpa | to run |
| 7 | Old Norse | hlaupa | to leap, jump, spring |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | hlaupaną | to jump forward, to leap |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | klaup- | — |
Words derived from “matto”