Where does “riisisato” come from?
riisisato (Finnish) comes from Finnish riisi, from Swedish ris, from Old Norse rís, from Middle Low German rīs, from Old French ris, from Italian riso, from Latin rīsus, from Ancient Greek ὄρυζα.
riisisato (Finnish): rice harvest, rice yield, rice crop
Definitions
- rice harvest, rice yield, rice crop
Ancestry of “riisisato”, step by step
riisisato traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish riisi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | riisi | rice; ream; rachitis |
| 2 | Swedish | ris | small shrubs, such as blueberry and lingonberry,... |
| 3 | Old Norse | rís | — |
| 4 | Middle Low German | rīs | — |
| 5 | Old French | ris | reef |
| 6 | Italian | riso | laughter, laugh; rice; past participle of ridere |
| 7 | Latin | rīsus | laughed at, ridiculed, mocked, having been ridiculed |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | ὄρυζα | rice |
| 9 | Proto-Iranian | *wrinǰiš | — |
via Finnish sato
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | sato | harvest, crop |
| 2 | Finnish | sataa | to precipitate to have water in the air fall to the ground: to rain, snow, sleet, hail |
| 3 | North Frisian | iir | year |
| 4 | Old Frisian | iēr | — |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | jār | year |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | jērą | year; name of the J-rune |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | yeh₁r- | year |