Where does “sekahakutanssit” come from?

sekahakutanssit (Finnish) comes from Finnish sekahaku, from Finnish haku, from Finnish hakea, from Proto-Finnic hakedak, from Proto-Germanic sākija-.

sekahakutanssit (Finnish): a dance event in which both the man and the woman can be the initiating partner

Definitions

  1. a dance event in which both the man and the woman can be the initiating partner

Ancestry of “sekahakutanssit”, step by step

sekahakutanssit traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish sekahaku

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsekahakuan arrangement (at a dance event) where anyone can ask anyone else to dance with them; anyone's choice
2Finnishhakusearch; applying, application
3FinnishhakeaTo retrieve, get, fetch; To search; To apply
4Proto-Finnichakedakto pick; to fetch; to gather, to collect
5Proto-Germanicsākija-—

via Finnish tanssit

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtanssitdance social event
Every word from Proto-Germanic sākija- →Every word from Proto-Finnic hakedak →Every word from Finnish hakea →