Where does “mestariampuja” come from?
mestariampuja (Finnish) comes from Finnish mestari, from Old Swedish mæstare, from Old Norse meistari, from Middle Low German meister, from Old Saxon mēstar, from Old French maistre, from Latin magister, from Proto-Italic magisteros — big, great.
mestariampuja (Finnish): marksman, sharpshooter
Definitions
- marksman, sharpshooter
Ancestry of “mestariampuja”, step by step
mestariampuja traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish mestari
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | mestari | master; expert; champion |
| 2 | Old Swedish | mæstare | — |
| 3 | Old Norse | meistari | — |
| 4 | Middle Low German | meister | — |
| 5 | Old Saxon | mēstar | — |
| 6 | Old French | maistre | master; Master; magister |
| 7 | Latin | magister | teacher; master; a title of the Middle Ages,... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | magisteros | bigger, greater |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | méǵh₂isteros | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | méǵh₂s | big, great |
via Finnish ampuja
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | ampuja | shooter; Partitive plural form of ampu |
| 2 | Finnish | jä | ice |
| 3 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | *ja | — |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | jahw | and, also |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | -hw | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | -hwe | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -kʷe | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |