Where does “ootraus” come from?
ootraus (Finnish) comes from Finnish ootrata, from Swedish ådra, from Swedish å, from Swedish och, from Old Swedish ock, from Old Norse ok, from Old Norse svá, from Proto-Germanic swa — self (reflexive pronoun).
ootraus (Finnish): graining art and practice of producing imitated wood surfaces by painting
Definitions
- graining art and practice of producing imitated wood surfaces by painting
Ancestry of “ootraus”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | ootrata | To grain to imitate the grain of wood by painting |
| 2 | Swedish | ådra | vein, blood vessel; vein in a leaf; vein, strain... |
| 3 | Swedish | å | a river, a creek, a big stream; on |
| 4 | Swedish | och | and; used to connect two homogeneous words or... |
| 5 | Old Swedish | ock | — |
| 6 | Old Norse | ok | and; also, too; yoke |
| 7 | Old Norse | svá | so |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | swa | so, thus, in this manner |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | swē | like, similar to; just like, in the same manner... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | swē | self (reflexive pronoun) |