Where does “santarmisto” come from?
santarmisto (Finnish) comes from Finnish santarmi, from Russian жанда́рм, from French gendarme, from French gendarmes, from French gens, from French gents, from Old French gent, from Latin genitus — to produce, to beget, to give birth.
santarmisto (Finnish): gendarmerie
Definitions
- gendarmerie
Ancestry of “santarmisto”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | santarmi | gendarme |
| 2 | Russian | жанда́рм | gendarme |
| 3 | French | gendarme | A member of the gendarmerie, a military body... |
| 4 | French | gendarmes | plural of gendarme |
| 5 | French | gens | set of people |
| 6 | French | gents | plural of gent; masculine plural of gent |
| 7 | Old French | gent | people, population; fair, beautiful, handsome;... |
| 8 | Latin | genitus | begotten; engendered; produced |
| 9 | Latin | gignere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 10 | Latin | genere | ablative singular of genus; to beget, produce |
| 11 | Latin | genus | birth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,... |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | genos | lineage, origin |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵénh₁os | race, lineage |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |