Where does “piirakkakaulin” come from?
piirakkakaulin (Finnish) comes from Finnish kaulin, from Finnish kaulia, from Finnish kaulata, from Swedish kavla, from Swedish a, from Swedish avlopp, from Swedish lopp, from Swedish löpa.
piirakkakaulin (Finnish): pastry dough rolling pin
Definitions
- pastry dough rolling pin
Ancestry of “piirakkakaulin”, step by step
piirakkakaulin traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish kaulin
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kaulin | rolling pin, roll cylindrical utensil used to shape and flatten dough |
| 2 | Finnish | kaulia | to roll |
| 3 | Finnish | kaulata | To girdle a tree; To mangle linen in order to... |
| 4 | Swedish | kavla | to roll (with a rolling pin) |
| 5 | Swedish | a | from |
| 6 | Swedish | avlopp | a drain; sewage |
| 7 | Swedish | lopp | a race (running competition or (in an extended sense) other speed competition, like in English) |
| 8 | Swedish | löpa | to run along, stretch; to run, to move quickly... |
| 9 | Old Swedish | løpa | to run |
| 10 | Old Norse | hlaupa | to leap, jump, spring |
| 11 | Proto-Germanic | hlaupaną | to jump forward, to leap |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | klaup- | — |