Where does “ruokosokerisiirappi” come from?
ruokosokerisiirappi (Finnish) comes from Finnish ruokosokeri, from Finnish sokeri, from Swedish socker, from Old Swedish soker, from Middle Low German sucker, from Middle High German zucker, from Old High German zuckar, from Italian zucchero — gravel, boulder; boulder; gravel.
ruokosokerisiirappi (Finnish): cane syrup, cane sugar syrup
Definitions
- cane syrup, cane sugar syrup
Ancestry of “ruokosokerisiirappi”, step by step
ruokosokerisiirappi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish ruokosokeri
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | ruokosokeri | cane sugar |
| 2 | Finnish | sokeri | sugar |
| 3 | Swedish | socker | sugar; sucrose in the form of small crystals;... |
| 4 | Old Swedish | soker | — |
| 5 | Middle Low German | sucker | sugar |
| 6 | Middle High German | zucker | sugar |
| 7 | Old High German | zuckar | — |
| 8 | Italian | zucchero | sugar; first-person singular indicative present... |
| 9 | Arabic | سُكَّر | — |
| 10 | Persian | شکر | sugar |
| 11 | Middle Persian | škl | sugar |
| 12 | Sanskrit | शर्करा | gravel, grit, pebbles, shingle, gravelly mould or... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-Aryan | śárkaraH | — |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | ćárkaraH | — |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱorkeh₂ | gravel, boulder; boulder; gravel |