Where does “muoti-ilmaus” come from?
muoti-ilmaus (Finnish) comes from Finnish muoti, from Swedish mod, from English mod, from English MAD, from Middle English mad, from Old English ġemǣd, from Proto-Germanic maidijaną, from Proto-Germanic maidaz — soft, tender, dear.
muoti-ilmaus (Finnish): a word or expression that is particularly popular to the point of being abused or clichéd; buzz-phrase
Definitions
- a word or expression that is particularly popular to the point of being abused or clichéd; buzz-phrase
Ancestry of “muoti-ilmaus”, step by step
muoti-ilmaus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish muoti
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | muoti | vogue, fashion; vogue, fad |
| 2 | Swedish | mod | courage; feeling |
| 3 | English | mod | An unconventionally modern style of fashionable... |
| 4 | English | MAD | Initialism of mutually assured destruction;... |
| 5 | Middle English | mad | Mad, insane, deranged; not of sound mind;... |
| 6 | Old English | ġemǣd | — |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | maidijaną | to exchange, change |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | maidaz | hurt, wounded; mad, foolish; angry, enraged |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | mēy- | soft, tender, dear |
via Finnish ilmaus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | ilmaus | expression; bleeding |
| 2 | Finnish | ilmata | to bleed |
| 3 | Finnish | Ilma | air |
| 4 | Finnish | -ri | Used to create names of occupations from nouns or... |
| 5 | Finnish | -ra | Forms nouns or adjectives, mostly from nominal... |
| 6 | Finnish | -i | A nominal suffix used in eg. ukko → ukki; Used... |
| 7 | Proto-Uralic | -j | oblique plural |