Where does “miljardisosa” come from?
miljardisosa (Finnish) comes from Finnish miljardis, from Finnish miljardi, from French milliard, from French million, from Middle French million, from Old French millon, from Italian milione, from Italian mille.
miljardisosa (Finnish): one billionth/thousand millionth
Definitions
- one billionth/thousand millionth
Ancestry of “miljardisosa”, step by step
miljardisosa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish miljardis
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | miljardis | billionth short scale, milliardth long scale, thousand millionth 1,000,000,000th |
| 2 | Finnish | miljardi | A milliard, 10 |
| 3 | French | milliard | A milliard |
| 4 | French | million | million, 10 |
| 5 | Middle French | million | million, 10 |
| 6 | Old French | millon | — |
| 7 | Italian | milione | million |
| 8 | Italian | mille | thousand |
| 9 | Latin | Mīlle | thousand; 1000 |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | smīɣeslī | thousand |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ | — |