Where does “nistipata” come from?
nistipata (Finnish) comes from Finnish pata, from Swedish spader, from German Spaten, from Dutch spatten, from Dutch -en, from Middle Dutch -en, from Old Dutch -en, from Proto-Germanic -janą — he, she.
Ancestry of “nistipata”, step by step
nistipata traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish pata
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | pata | cauldron; pot; typically one made of thick... |
| 2 | Swedish | spader | spade, spades |
| 3 | German | Spaten | spade |
| 4 | Dutch | spatten | to splatter, splash |
| 5 | Dutch | -en | Forms verbs from nouns and adjectives. The stem... |
| 6 | Middle Dutch | -en | The ending of the infinitive form of verbs, used... |
| 7 | Old Dutch | -en | — |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | -janą | Derives denominatives from nouns and factitives... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 11 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via Finnish nisti
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | nisti | junkie, drug addict; Third-person singular... |
| 2 | Finnish | heroinisti | heroin addict |
| 3 | Finnish | heroiini | heroin |
| 4 | German | Heroin | heroin |
| 5 | Latin | hērōina | heroine |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | ἡρωΐνη | Alternative spelling of ἡρωίνη |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | ἥρως | a hero of the Trojan War: any of the major... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | sēr- | to flow |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ser- | to flow; to guard; to bind, to tie together |