Where does “salaattivoikukka” come from?
salaattivoikukka (Finnish) comes from Finnish salaatti, from Swedish sallad, from French salade, from Italian salada, from Vulgar Latin salata, from Latin Salo, from Latin saliō, from Latin sāl — salt.
salaattivoikukka (Finnish): A mild-tasting variety of common dandelion, cultivated as leaf vegetable
Definitions
- A mild-tasting variety of common dandelion, cultivated as leaf vegetable
Ancestry of “salaattivoikukka”, step by step
salaattivoikukka traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish salaatti
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | salaatti | salad; lettuce; any plant of the genus "Lactuca" |
| 2 | Swedish | sallad | salad; vegetables consisting of leaves, typically... |
| 3 | French | salade | salad; sallet |
| 4 | Italian | salada | — |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | salata | salted |
| 6 | Latin | Salo | that flows near Bilbilis and then into the Iberus, now the Jalón |
| 7 | Latin | saliō | to leap, jump, bound |
| 8 | Latin | sāl | salt |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | sāls | salt |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | *sḗh₂l | salt |
via Finnish voikukka
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | voikukka | dandelion; common dandelion |
| 2 | Finnish | kukka | flower; cannabis; weed |
| 3 | Latin | Flōra | Flora, the goddess of flowers |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | *Flōzā | an Italic flower goddess, Flora |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | flōs | flower, blossom |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰleh₃-s | flower, blossom |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰleh₃- | bloom, flower |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |