Where does “rantalentopallo” come from?
rantalentopallo (Finnish) comes from Finnish lentopallo, from Finnish lento, from Italian lento, from Spanish lento, from Galician -ura, from Latin -ura, from Latin -tūra — ing, -ure, -work.
rantalentopallo (Finnish): beach volleyball
Definitions
- beach volleyball
Ancestry of “rantalentopallo”, step by step
rantalentopallo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish lentopallo
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | lentopallo | volleyball |
| 2 | Finnish | lento | flying, flight; flight; lento |
| 3 | Italian | lento | slow |
| 4 | Spanish | lento | slow |
| 5 | Galician | -ura | -ness |
| 6 | Latin | -ura | Suffix forming abstract nouns from adjectives |
| 7 | Latin | -tūra | ing, -ure, -work |
via Finnish Ranta
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | Ranta | Any of a number of small places in Finland |
| 2 | Finnish | ranta | shore; beach; bank |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | ranta | shore, coast |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | strandō | edge; rim; shore, strand |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)trAnt- | strand, border, field |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | sterh₃- | to spread, extend, stretch out |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ster- | sterile, infertile |