Where does “olkipelletti” come from?
olkipelletti (Finnish) comes from Finnish pelletti, from English pellet, from Old French pelote, from Vulgar Latin pilotta, from Latin pila, from Latin pīlus, from Latin pīlum, from Proto-Italic pistlom — to grind, to crush.
olkipelletti (Finnish): straw pellet
Definitions
- straw pellet
Ancestry of “olkipelletti”, step by step
olkipelletti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish pelletti
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | pelletti | pellet |
| 2 | English | pellet | A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter; A lead... |
| 3 | Old French | pelote | small ball |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | pilotta | — |
| 5 | Latin | pila | mortar; pillar; pier |
| 6 | Latin | pīlus | a hair |
| 7 | Latin | pīlum | a pounder, pestle |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | pistlom | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | pis-tlo- | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | peys- | to grind, to crush |