Where does “risteilymatkustaja” come from?
risteilymatkustaja (Finnish) comes from Finnish risteily, from Finnish risteillä, from Finnish ristetä, from Finnish Risti, from Finnish -iäinen, from Finnish -inen, from Finnish -uus, from Proto-Finnic -uc — -ness, -hood.
risteilymatkustaja (Finnish): cruise passenger, cruiser
Definitions
- cruise passenger, cruiser
Ancestry of “risteilymatkustaja”, step by step
risteilymatkustaja traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish risteily
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | risteily | cruise |
| 2 | Finnish | risteillä | to crisscross; to cruise; Adessive plural form... |
| 3 | Finnish | ristetä | to intersect, cross |
| 4 | Finnish | Risti | cross |
| 5 | Finnish | -iäinen | Front vowel variant of -iainen |
| 6 | Finnish | -inen | -like, -ous, -y; -en; Creates adjectives from... |
| 7 | Finnish | -uus | Forms nouns from adjectives, expressing a quality |
| 8 | Proto-Finnic | -uc | -ness, -hood |
via Finnish matkustaja
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | matkustaja | passenger; traveller; occupant |
| 2 | Finnish | jä | ice |
| 3 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | *ja | — |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | jahw | and, also |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | -hw | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | -hwe | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -kʷe | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |