Where does “piiritanssi” come from?

piiritanssi (Finnish) comes from Finnish tanssi, from Swedish dans, from Old French dance, from Old French dancier, from Vulgar Latin *dantiāre.

piiritanssi (Finnish): ring dance, circle dance

Definitions

  1. ring dance, circle dance

Ancestry of “piiritanssi”, step by step

piiritanssi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish tanssi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtanssidance; Third-person singular indicative past form...
2Swedishdansdance
3Old Frenchdancedance
4Old Frenchdancierto dance
5Vulgar Latin*dantiāre—

via Finnish piiri

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpiiriring of people; administrative district, region;...
2Proto-Finnicpiiriline; border; ring, circle
3Proto-Uralicpirecircle
Every word from Vulgar Latin *dantiāre →Every word from Old French dancier →Every word from Old French dance →