Where does “okariinansoittaja” come from?
okariinansoittaja (Finnish) comes from Finnish okariina, from Italian ocarina, from Italian oca, from French oque, from Ottoman Turkish okka, from Arabic أُوقِيَّة, from Classical Syriac ܐܘܢܩܝܐ, from Ancient Greek οὐγγία — arable; ploughed, cultivated.
okariinansoittaja (Finnish): ocarinist
Definitions
- ocarinist
Ancestry of “okariinansoittaja”, step by step
okariinansoittaja traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish okariina
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | okariina | ocarina |
| 2 | Italian | ocarina | ocarina |
| 3 | Italian | oca | goose; gander; goose, silly goose, airhead |
| 4 | French | oque | An oka: any of various units of mass formerly... |
| 5 | Ottoman Turkish | okka | — |
| 6 | Arabic | أُوقِيَّة | وِقِيَّة |
| 7 | Classical Syriac | ܐܘܢܩܝܐ | — |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | οὐγγία | — |
| 9 | Latin | uncia | The twelfth part of something; twelfth; The... |
| 10 | Old French | lonce | lynx |
| 11 | Italian | lonza | loin of pork; a term used in the Middle Ages to... |
| 12 | Vulgar Latin | luncea | — |
| 13 | Latin | lynx | A lynx |
| 14 | Ancient Greek | λύγξ | lynx; hiccup |
| 15 | Latin | canadensis | Canadian |
| 16 | Latin | -ensis | Of or from |
| 17 | Latin | arvum | field; farm land |
| 18 | Latin | arvus | arable; ploughed, cultivated |
via Finnish soittaja
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | soittaja | player; caller; agent noun of soittaa |
| 2 | Finnish | jä | ice |
| 3 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | *ja | — |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | jahw | and, also |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | -hw | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | -hwe | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -kʷe | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |