Where does “mattosuutin” come from?
mattosuutin (Finnish) comes from Finnish suutin, from Navajo -TIN, from Proto-Athabaskan tən, from Persian تن, from English ton, from French ton, from Old French ton, from Latin tuus — to be able.
mattosuutin (Finnish): carpet nozzle
Definitions
- carpet nozzle
Ancestry of “mattosuutin”, step by step
mattosuutin traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish suutin
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | suutin | A nozzle; A tuyere |
| 2 | Navajo | -TIN | to freeze |
| 3 | Proto-Athabaskan | tən | ice, frost |
| 4 | Persian | تن | body; person; tonne |
| 5 | English | ton | A unit of weight equal to 2240 pounds or 2000... |
| 6 | French | ton | Your, thy; Tone; Tone, shade |
| 7 | Old French | ton | your |
| 8 | Latin | tuus | your |
| 9 | Russian | туз | ace; bigwig; two-oar dinghy |
| 10 | Polish | tuz | ace; luminary, person of importance in their... |
| 11 | Polish | tu | here |
| 12 | Polish | być | to be |
| 13 | Polish | móc | to be able; may, might; to be allowed |
| 14 | Old Polish | móc | can, may, to be able to |
| 15 | Proto-Slavic | moťь | power |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | mógʰtis | — |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | meǵʰ- | to be able |
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- | — |