Where does “räätälinlihas” come from?
räätälinlihas (Finnish) comes from Finnish räätäli, from Swedish skräddare, from Swedish -are, from Old Swedish -are, from Old Norse -ari, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios.
räätälinlihas (Finnish): sartorius
Ancestry of “räätälinlihas”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | räätäli | tailor; tailorbird |
| 2 | Swedish | skräddare | a tailor |
| 3 | Swedish | -are | Regular construction of comparative: ful →... |
| 4 | Old Swedish | -are | — |
| 5 | Old Norse | -ari | a suffix used to create agent nouns from verbs;... |
| 6 | Latin | -ārius | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *-āzios | — |