Where does “mittasakset” come from?

mittasakset (Finnish) comes from Finnish sakset, from Swedish sax, from Swedish saxofon — saxophone.

mittasakset (Finnish): calipers

Definitions

  1. calipers

Ancestry of “mittasakset”, step by step

mittasakset traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish sakset

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsaksetscissors; shears; scissors; pincers, claws
2Swedishsaxa pair of scissors; shears; "short of" saxofon; a...
3Swedishsaxofonsaxophone

via Finnish mitta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmittameasure; length, measure
2Proto-Finnicmittameasure
Every word from Swedish saxofon →Every word from Swedish sax →Every word from Finnish sakset →
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