Where does “paristoradio” come from?
paristoradio (Finnish) comes from Finnish radio, from Swedish radio, from English radio, from English radiotelegraphy, from English telegraphy, from English Telegraph, from French télégraphe, from French télé-.
paristoradio (Finnish): portable radio with a battery
Definitions
- portable radio with a battery
Ancestry of “paristoradio”, step by step
paristoradio traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish radio
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | radio | radio; radio- |
| 2 | Swedish | radio | radio; radio; receiver |
| 3 | English | radio | The technology that allows for the transmission... |
| 4 | English | radiotelegraphy | The process and techniques of sending telegrams... |
| 5 | English | telegraphy | communication at a distance by means of the... |
| 6 | English | Telegraph | any process for transmitting arbitrarily long messages over a long distance using a symbolic code |
| 7 | French | télégraphe | telegraph |
| 8 | French | télé- | tele- |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | τῆλε | far off, afar, far away |
| 10 | Latin | commūnicāre | — |
| 11 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 12 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 17 | Middle English | kyt | — |
via Finnish paristo
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | paristo | battery |
| 2 | Finnish | pari | couple, pair; partner; battery cell |
| 3 | Swedish | par | a pair, a couple; a couple, two people who are... |
| 4 | English | peer | To look with difficulty, or as if searching for... |
| 5 | English | pee | Urine; To urinate; To drizzle |
| 6 | English | piss | Urine; An instance of pissing; Alcoholic... |
| 7 | Middle English | pisse | piss, urine; Alternative form of pissen |
| 8 | Middle English | pissen | To piss; to deliver urine from the genitals; To... |
| 9 | Old French | pissier | to piss; to excrete urine |
| 10 | Vulgar Latin | pissiare | present active infinitive of *pīssiō |
| 11 | Latin | pissio | I piss |