Where does “saunatonttu” come from?
saunatonttu (Finnish) comes from Finnish tonttu, from Finnish tonni, from Swedish ton, from English ton, from French ton, from Old French ton, from Latin tuus, from Russian туз.
saunatonttu (Finnish): An elf said to inhabit the sauna and punish those...
Definitions
- An elf said to inhabit the sauna and punish those...
Ancestry of “saunatonttu”, step by step
saunatonttu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish tonttu
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | tonttu | A miniature mythical humanoid creature believed... |
| 2 | Finnish | tonni | metric ton; grand |
| 3 | Swedish | ton | tonne; tone; tone, shade |
| 4 | English | ton | A unit of weight equal to 2240 pounds or 2000... |
| 5 | French | ton | Your, thy; Tone; Tone, shade |
| 6 | Old French | ton | your |
| 7 | Latin | tuus | your |
| 8 | Russian | туз | ace; bigwig; two-oar dinghy |
| 9 | Polish | tuz | ace; luminary, person of importance in their... |
| 10 | Polish | tu | here |
| 11 | Polish | być | to be |
| 12 | Polish | móc | to be able; may, might; to be allowed |
| 13 | Old Polish | móc | can, may, to be able to |
| 14 | Proto-Slavic | moťь | power |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | mógʰtis | — |