Where does “rautatievirkailija” come from?
rautatievirkailija (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.
rautatievirkailija (Finnish): railway clerk, railway official, railway employee
Definitions
- railway clerk, railway official, railway employee
Ancestry of “rautatievirkailija”, step by step
rautatievirkailija 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 | — |
via Finnish virkailija
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | virkailija | employee, functionary; clerk |
| 2 | Finnish | virkailla | to stall, drag one's feet, procrastinate |
| 3 | Finnish | virka | post, position, office, public office; purpose,... |
| 4 | Old Norse | virkja | — |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | wirkijaną | to make, produce; to effect, make happen |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | werǵ- | to make |