Where does “rautatiekirjuri” come from?
rautatiekirjuri (Finnish) comes from Finnish rautatie, from Romanian răutate, from Romanian rău, from Romanian făcător, from Romanian face, from Romanian -tor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr.
Ancestry of “rautatiekirjuri”, step by step
rautatiekirjuri traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish rautatie
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | rautatie | railway, railroad |
| 2 | Romanian | răutate | badness, wickedness, maliciousness, malignity |
| 3 | Romanian | rău | bad; wrong; sick |
| 4 | Romanian | făcător | maker, creator; making, doing |
| 5 | Romanian | face | do, make; to be made, to be done |
| 6 | Romanian | -tor | -er; -ing |
| 7 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |