Where does “ritarisali” come from?
ritarisali (Finnish) comes from Finnish ritari, from Swedish riddare, from Old Norse riddari, from Middle Low German ridder, from Middle Dutch riddere, from Middle Dutch rîdere, from Old Dutch rīdere, from Old Dutch rīdan — to fit, to fix, to put together.
ritarisali (Finnish): hall of knights
Definitions
- hall of knights
Ancestry of “ritarisali”, step by step
ritarisali traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish ritari
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | ritari | knight |
| 2 | Swedish | riddare | a knight |
| 3 | Old Norse | riddari | knight, mounted warrior; knight |
| 4 | Middle Low German | ridder | a knight, an armored professional soldier usually... |
| 5 | Middle Dutch | riddere | — |
| 6 | Middle Dutch | rîdere | — |
| 7 | Old Dutch | rīdere | — |
| 8 | Old Dutch | rīdan | to ride |
| 9 | Proto-West Germanic | rīdan | to ride |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | rīdaną | to ride |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | rēydʰ- | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂er- | to fit, to fix, to put together |