Where does “neekerisankkeri” come from?
neekerisankkeri (Finnish) comes from Finnish sankkeri, from French chancre, from Middle French chancre, from Old French chancre, from Latin cancer, from Proto-Italic kankros, from Proto-Italic karkros, from Proto-Indo-European kr̥-kr̥- — to cut, cut off, sever.
neekerisankkeri (Finnish): lymphogranuloma venereum
Definitions
- lymphogranuloma venereum
Ancestry of “neekerisankkeri”, step by step
neekerisankkeri traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish sankkeri
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | sankkeri | chancre |
| 2 | French | chancre | lobster, crab; canker, chancre |
| 3 | Middle French | chancre | cancer |
| 4 | Old French | chancre | — |
| 5 | Latin | cancer | a crab; a tumor, cancer; a lattice, grid, or... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | kankros | crab |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | karkros | enclosure, barrier |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | kr̥-kr̥- | circular |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)ker- | to cut off; to turn, bend |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | sek- | to cut, cut off, sever |
via Finnish neekeri
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | neekeri | negro; nigger; journalist |
| 2 | Swedish | neger | a negro, a black person |
| 3 | German | neger | broke, bankrupt |
| 4 | German | Näher | sewer |
| 5 | German | -er | Forms agent nouns etc. from verbs, suffixed to... |
| 6 | Old High German | -āri | used to form agent nouns |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | -ārī | -er |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | -ārijaz | -er |
| 9 | Latin | -ārius | er |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | *-āzios | Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals) |