Where does “sansibarinruostegueretsa” come from?
sansibarinruostegueretsa (Finnish) comes from Finnish Sansibar, from English Zanzibar, from Persian زنگبار, from Persian بار, from French bar, from English Bar, from German bär, from Middle High German bër.
sansibarinruostegueretsa (Finnish): Zanzibar red colobus, Kirk's red colobus, Piliocolobus kirkiispecies of red colobus monkey endemic to Unguja, the main island of the Zanzibar
Definitions
- Zanzibar red colobus, Kirk's red colobus, Piliocolobus kirkiispecies of red colobus monkey endemic to Unguja, the main island of the Zanzibar
Ancestry of “sansibarinruostegueretsa”, step by step
sansibarinruostegueretsa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish Sansibar
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | Sansibar | Zanzibar |
| 2 | English | Zanzibar | which merged with Tanganyika in 1963 to form Tanzania |
| 3 | Persian | زنگبار | Zanzibar |
| 4 | Persian | بار | present stem form of باریدن; burden, load,... |
| 5 | French | bar | A bar; A bass |
| 6 | English | Bar | A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length |
| 7 | German | bär | — |
| 8 | Middle High German | bër | bear |
| 9 | Old High German | beri | A berry |
| 10 | Proto-West Germanic | baʀi | berry |
| 11 | Proto-Germanic | bazją | berry |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰeh₂- | to shine, glow light; to speak, say |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰeh₂-s-ri- | — |
via Finnish ruostegueretsa
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | ruostegueretsa | red colobus, red colobus monkey Old World monkey of the genus |
| 2 | Finnish | ruoste | rust; rusty; inessive case is sometimes better... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | roostek | rust |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | rustaz | rust |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | rudʰso- | red |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁rewdʰ- | red |