Where does “ranskantaitoinen” come from?
ranskantaitoinen (Finnish) comes from Finnish Ranska, from Swedish fransk, from Middle Low German fransch, from Old French Franceis, from Latin Franciscus, from Latin francia, from Latin -ia, from Latin -ius — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.
ranskantaitoinen (Finnish): proficient in French speaking French as foreign language
Definitions
- proficient in French speaking French as foreign language
Ancestry of “ranskantaitoinen”, step by step
ranskantaitoinen traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish Ranska
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | Ranska | French |
| 2 | Swedish | fransk | French |
| 3 | Middle Low German | fransch | — |
| 4 | Old French | Franceis | — |
| 5 | Latin | Franciscus | French; Frankish |
| 6 | Latin | francia | nominative plural of francium; accusative plural... |
| 7 | Latin | -ia | Used to form a feminine abstract noun, usually... |
| 8 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |
via Finnish taitoinen
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | taitoinen | proficient being able to speak a language, especially as a foreign language |
| 2 | Finnish | Taito | skill capacity to do something well, particularly one that is acquired or learned |
| 3 | Finnish | taito | skill; art |
| 4 | Finnish | -o | Forms result or action nouns from verbs; Forms... |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | -o | Forms action/result nouns from verbs |
| 6 | Proto-Uralic | -w | — |