Where does “soolotanssi” come from?
soolotanssi (Finnish) comes from Finnish tanssi, from Swedish dans, from Old French dance, from Old French dancier, from Vulgar Latin *dantiāre.
soolotanssi (Finnish): solo dance
Ancestry of “soolotanssi”, step by step
soolotanssi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish tanssi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | tanssi | dance; Third-person singular indicative past form... |
| 2 | Swedish | dans | dance |
| 3 | Old French | dance | dance |
| 4 | Old French | dancier | to dance |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | *dantiāre | — |
via Finnish soolo
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | soolo | solo |
| 2 | Italian | solo | alone, by oneself, unattended, unaccompanied,... |
| 3 | Latin | sōlus | — |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | Σολοῦς | Solus, Sicily, Italy |