Where does “radiokasettisoitin” come from?
radiokasettisoitin (Finnish) comes from Finnish radio, from Swedish radio, from English radio, from English radiotelegraphy, from English telegraphy, from English Telegraph, from French télégraphe, from French télé-.
radiokasettisoitin (Finnish): radio cassette player
Definitions
- radio cassette player
Ancestry of “radiokasettisoitin”, step by step
radiokasettisoitin traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish radio
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | radio | radio; radio- |
| 2 | Swedish | radio | radio; radio; receiver |
| 3 | English | radio | The technology that allows for the transmission... |
| 4 | English | radiotelegraphy | The process and techniques of sending telegrams... |
| 5 | English | telegraphy | communication at a distance by means of the... |
| 6 | English | Telegraph | any process for transmitting arbitrarily long messages over a long distance using a symbolic code |
| 7 | French | télégraphe | telegraph |
| 8 | French | télé- | tele- |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | τῆλε | far off, afar, far away |
| 10 | Latin | commūnicāre | — |
| 11 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 12 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 17 | Middle English | kyt | — |
via Finnish kasetti
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kasetti | cassette; coffer |
| 2 | French | cassette | treasure box; small box; cassette tape |
| 3 | Middle French | cassette | — |
| 4 | Middle French | -ette | -et, -ette |
| 5 | Old French | -eté | variant of -té |
| 6 | Latin | -ittus | diminutive suffix, used to create nouns |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -tos | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -tós | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |
via Finnish soitin
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | soitin | musical instrument; player; First-person singular... |
| 2 | Finnish | soittaa | to play; to phone, call; to ring, toll |
| 3 | Finnish | -ttaa | Forms causative verbs. May be applied to verbs... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -ttadak | Creates causative verbs from regular verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -kta- | — |