Where does “pistematriisi” come from?
pistematriisi (Finnish) comes from Finnish matriisi, from Swedish matris, from Swedish ris, from Old Norse rís, from Middle Low German rīs, from Old French ris, from Italian riso, from Latin rīsus.
pistematriisi (Finnish): dot matrix two-dimensional array or pattern of dots
Definitions
- dot matrix two-dimensional array or pattern of dots
Ancestry of “pistematriisi”, step by step
pistematriisi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish matriisi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | matriisi | matrix |
| 2 | Swedish | matris | matrix; rectangular arrangement of terms; matrix;... |
| 3 | Swedish | ris | small shrubs, such as blueberry and lingonberry,... |
| 4 | Old Norse | rís | — |
| 5 | Middle Low German | rīs | — |
| 6 | Old French | ris | reef |
| 7 | Italian | riso | laughter, laugh; rice; past participle of ridere |
| 8 | Latin | rīsus | laughed at, ridiculed, mocked, having been ridiculed |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | ὄρυζα | rice |
| 10 | Proto-Iranian | *wrinǰiš | — |
via Finnish piste
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | piste | point, dot, full stop, period; point |
| 2 | Finnish | -e | Used for forming nouns from verbs or adjectives |
| 3 | Finnish | hartia | shoulder |
| 4 | Serbo-Croatian | hartija | paper |
| 5 | Greek | χαρτί | paper |
| 6 | Koine Greek | χαρτίον | paper, papyrus |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | χάρτης | sheet of paper, paper; book |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | χαράσσω | to sharpen; to engrave, carve, write, draw, stamp |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵʰer- | to yearn for; to enclose; bowels, intestines |