Where does “poliisiylijohtaja” come from?
poliisiylijohtaja (Finnish) comes from Finnish poliisi, from Swedish polis, from French police, from Italian polizia, from Russian поли́ция, from Polish policja, from German Polizei, from Catalan policia — Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems.
poliisiylijohtaja (Finnish): (national) police commissioner
Definitions
- (national) police commissioner
Ancestry of “poliisiylijohtaja”, step by step
poliisiylijohtaja traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish poliisi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | poliisi | police; policeman; Illative singular form of... |
| 2 | Swedish | polis | police |
| 3 | French | police | police; cop; policy |
| 4 | Italian | polizia | police |
| 5 | Russian | поли́ция | police |
| 6 | Polish | policja | police |
| 7 | German | Polizei | police |
| 8 | Catalan | policia | police; policeman, policewoman |
| 9 | Late Latin | politia | citizenship; government; state, government |
| 10 | Latin | polītīa | state, government, administration |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | πολιτεία | the relation in which a citizen stands to the... |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | πολῑ́της | citizen |
| 13 | Ancient Greek | -της | Forms nouns representing a state of being; Added... |
| 14 | Proto-Hellenic | -tāts | — |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | -teh₂ts | Used to form nouns representing state of being |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | -teh₂ | Used to form nouns representing state of being |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | -tós | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |
via Finnish ylijohtaja
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | ylijohtaja | director-general title of the chief executive of certain branches of government |
| 2 | Swedish | överdirektör | a deputy director-general |
| 3 | Swedish | direktör | a manager; boss or leader of a company; a... |
| 4 | Ottoman Turkish | دیركتور | — |
| 5 | French | directeur | leading, managing; director; school principal |
| 6 | Latin | dīrector | director, guide, overseer |
| 7 | Latin | dīrectus | laid straight, arranged in lines, having been arranged in lines |
| 8 | Latin | dīrigō | to lay straight; arrange in lines (especially in military contexts) |
| 9 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 10 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 11 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |