Where does “parkkimittari” come from?
parkkimittari (Finnish) comes from Finnish parkki, from Swedish bark, from Dutch bark, from French barque, from Middle French barque, from Occitan barca, from Old Occitan barca, from Late Latin barca — a type of ship used for traveling or transporting...
Ancestry of “parkkimittari”, step by step
parkkimittari traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish parkki
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | parkki | bark; tannic; refers to parking or a vehicle... |
| 2 | Swedish | bark | bark; barque |
| 3 | Dutch | bark | the bark of certain trees, used for its tannin;... |
| 4 | French | barque | small boat |
| 5 | Middle French | barque | small ship |
| 6 | Occitan | barca | dinghy, boat |
| 7 | Old Occitan | barca | — |
| 8 | Late Latin | barca | small watercraft; small watercraft, barge, bark |
| 9 | Vulgar Latin | *barica | — |
| 10 | Classical Latin | bāris | — |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | βᾶρις | flat-bottomed boat, used in Egypt; farmhouse,... |
| 12 | Coptic | ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ | boat, barge |
| 13 | Demotic | br | — |
| 14 | Egyptian | bꜣjr | a type of ship used for traveling or transporting... |
via Finnish mittari
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | mittari | meter, gauge, indicator, instrument; geometrid... |
| 2 | Finnish | mitata | to measure (off/out), gauge |
| 3 | Middle Dutch | mēten | to measure |
| 4 | Old Dutch | metan | to measure |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | *metan | — |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | metaną | to measure |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | mēd- | to measure |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | med- | to measure; to give advice; healing |