Where does “nuorallatanssi” come from?
nuorallatanssi (Finnish) comes from Finnish tanssi, from Swedish dans, from Old French dance, from Old French dancier, from Vulgar Latin *dantiāre.
Ancestry of “nuorallatanssi”, step by step
nuorallatanssi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish tanssi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | tanssi | dance; Third-person singular indicative past form... |
| 2 | Swedish | dans | dance |
| 3 | Old French | dance | dance |
| 4 | Old French | dancier | to dance |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | *dantiāre | — |
via Finnish nuora
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | nuora | string, twine, cord; tightrope |
| 2 | Old Swedish | nor | — |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | narwaz | constricted; narrow |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)ner- | to wrap; wind; lace; shrink; shrivel; turn, bend,... |