Where does “neulahuopamatto” come from?
neulahuopamatto (Finnish) comes from Finnish huopamatto, from Finnish matto, from Swedish mätta, from Swedish a, from Swedish avlopp, from Swedish lopp, from Swedish löpa, from Old Swedish løpa.
Ancestry of “neulahuopamatto”, step by step
neulahuopamatto traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish huopamatto
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | huopamatto | felt carpet, felt rug |
| 2 | Finnish | matto | carpet, mat, rug; mat; mat, blasting mat |
| 3 | Swedish | mätta | to feed, to fill, to make full, to saturate |
| 4 | Swedish | a | from |
| 5 | Swedish | avlopp | a drain; sewage |
| 6 | Swedish | lopp | a race (running competition or (in an extended sense) other speed competition, like in English) |
| 7 | Swedish | löpa | to run along, stretch; to run, to move quickly... |
| 8 | Old Swedish | løpa | to run |
| 9 | Old Norse | hlaupa | to leap, jump, spring |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | hlaupaną | to jump forward, to leap |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | klaup- | — |