Where does “puintihäkki” come from?
puintihäkki (Finnish) comes from Finnish häkki, from English hack, from English hackysack, from English hackeysack, from English sack, from Middle English sak, from Old English sacc, from Old English sæcc — sack; sackcloth; sackcloth vestment, penitential...
puintihäkki (Finnish): a type of frame for threshing grain
Definitions
- a type of frame for threshing grain
Ancestry of “puintihäkki”, step by step
puintihäkki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish häkki
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | häkki | cage; goal |
| 2 | English | hack | To chop or cut down in a rough manner; To cough... |
| 3 | English | hackysack | Alternative form of hackeysack |
| 4 | English | hackeysack | A non-competition sport in which a small sack, or... |
| 5 | English | sack | A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse... |
| 6 | Middle English | sak | bag, sackcloth |
| 7 | Old English | sacc | sack, bag |
| 8 | Old English | sæcc | battle, strife, fighting |
| 9 | Proto-West Germanic | sakku | sack, bag |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | sakkuz | sack, bag, purse |
| 11 | Latin | saccus | sack, bag; purse, wallet, moneybag; garment of... |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | σάκκος | sack; sackcloth; sackcloth vestment, penitential... |
via Finnish puinti
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | puinti | threshing separation of grain from the straw or husks |
| 2 | Finnish | puida | To thresh; To thrash out, hash out, discuss; "~... |
| 3 | Finnish | ia | Obsolete spelling of ja |
| 4 | Finnish | ja | and; AND |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | ja | and |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | jahw | and, also |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | -hw | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | -hwe | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -kʷe | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |