Where does “mattoveitsi” come from?
mattoveitsi (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.
mattoveitsi (Finnish): utility knife, box cutter, Stanley knife, razor...
Definitions
- utility knife, box cutter, Stanley knife, razor...
Ancestry of “mattoveitsi”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 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 run, trace, track, path, a running ... |
| 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- | — |