Where does “ratamoottoripyörä” come from?
ratamoottoripyörä (Finnish) comes from Finnish moottoripyörä, from Finnish moottori, from Swedish motor, from Latin motor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.
ratamoottoripyörä (Finnish): track motorcycle, track motorbike
Definitions
- track motorcycle, track motorbike
Ancestry of “ratamoottoripyörä”, step by step
ratamoottoripyörä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish moottoripyörä
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | moottoripyörä | motorcycle |
| 2 | Finnish | moottori | engine, motor |
| 3 | Swedish | motor | engine, motor |
| 4 | Latin | motor | mover; that which moves something; first-person... |
| 5 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
via Finnish Rata
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | Rata | The former (Finnish) Financial Supervision Authority authority supervising financial markets and participants; merged with another authority in 2009 |
| 2 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | *rata | — |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | tradō | way; track; spoor |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | der- | to split, to separate; to tear, to crack, to... |