Where does “räätäli” come from?
räätäli (Finnish) comes from Swedish skräddare, from Swedish -are, from Old Swedish -are, from Old Norse -ari, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios.
räätäli (Finnish): tailor; tailorbird
Ancestry of “räätäli”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Swedish | skräddare | a tailor |
| 2 | Swedish | -are | Regular construction of comparative: ful →... |
| 3 | Old Swedish | -are | — |
| 4 | Old Norse | -ari | a suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs;... |
| 5 | Latin | -ārius | — |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *-āzios | — |
Words derived from “räätäli”