Where does “neljän kopla” come from?
neljän kopla (Finnish) comes from Finnish kopla, from Swedish koppel, from Middle Low German koppel, from Latin cōpula, from Latin coapula, from Latin apio, from Latin apium, from Latin Apis — the god Apis.
neljän kopla (Finnish): The Gang of Four
Definitions
- The Gang of Four
Ancestry of “neljän kopla”, step by step
neljän kopla traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish kopla
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kopla | A gang |
| 2 | Swedish | koppel | a leash |
| 3 | Middle Low German | koppel | pasture |
| 4 | Latin | cōpula | a bond, tie, band or other connecting item |
| 5 | Latin | coapula | — |
| 6 | Latin | apio | dative singular of apium; ablative singular of... |
| 7 | Latin | apium | parsley; celery; genitive plural of apis |
| 8 | Latin | Apis | A seaport town of Egypt situated at the borders with Marmarica |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | Ἄπις | — |
| 10 | Coptic | ϩⲁⲡⲉ | the Apis bull, a bull worshipped as a herald of the gods (first Ptah, then Osiris, then Atum) |
| 11 | Egyptian | ḥp | the god Apis |
via Finnish neljä
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | neljä | four |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | neljä | four |
| 3 | Proto-Uralic | neljä | four |
via English Gang of Four
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Gang of Four | A radical political faction composed of four Communist Party of China officials that came to prominence during the Chinese Cultural Revolution |
| 2 | Chinese | 四人幫 | the Gang of Four, a leftist political faction composed of four Chinese Communist Party officials that came to prominence during the Chinese Cultural Revolution |