Where does “soijakastike” come from?
soijakastike (Finnish) comes from Finnish soija, from Dutch soja, from Japanese そい, from Japanese 醤油, from Middle Chinese 醬油, from Middle Chinese 醬 — bean paste.
soijakastike (Finnish): soy sauce
Definitions
- soy sauce
Ancestry of “soijakastike”, step by step
soijakastike traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish soija
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | soija | soy/soya; soy sauce; sweat |
| 2 | Dutch | soja | soy |
| 3 | Japanese | そい | 醤油 soy sauce |
| 4 | Japanese | 醤油 | soy sauce |
| 5 | Middle Chinese | 醬油 | — |
| 6 | Middle Chinese | 醬 | bean paste |
via Finnish kastike
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kastike | sauce; gravy; dressing |
| 2 | Finnish | kastaa | to dip, sop; to baptize/baptise |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | kastadak | to wet, to soak; to dip, to immerse |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -tadak | Forms verbs from both nominal and verbal stems |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -ta- | Forms verbs from nouns; Forms causative verbs... |