Where does “parityöskentely” come from?
parityöskentely (Finnish) comes from Finnish pari, from Swedish par, from English peer, from English pee, from English piss, from Middle English pisse, from Middle English pissen, from Old French pissier — I piss.
parityöskentely (Finnish): working in pairs
Definitions
- working in pairs
Ancestry of “parityöskentely”, step by step
parityöskentely traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish pari
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | pari | couple, pair; partner; battery cell |
| 2 | Swedish | par | a pair, a couple; a couple, two people who are... |
| 3 | English | peer | To look with difficulty, or as if searching for... |
| 4 | English | pee | Urine; To urinate; To drizzle |
| 5 | English | piss | Urine; An instance of pissing; Alcoholic... |
| 6 | Middle English | pisse | piss, urine; Alternative form of pissen |
| 7 | Middle English | pissen | To piss; to deliver urine from the genitals; To... |
| 8 | Old French | pissier | to piss; to excrete urine |
| 9 | Vulgar Latin | pissiare | present active infinitive of *pīssiō |
| 10 | Latin | pissio | I piss |
via Finnish työskentely
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | työskentely | work, working, effort |
| 2 | Finnish | työskennellä | to work |
| 3 | Finnish | -skennella | Forms frequentative verbs from monosyllabic stems |
| 4 | Finnish | -ntaa | -en, -fy |
| 5 | Finnish | -taa | Forms causative verbs; Forms verbs from nouns and... |
| 6 | Proto-Finnic | -tadak | Forms verbs from both nominal and verbal stems |
| 7 | Proto-Uralic | -ta- | Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs... |