Where does “squash-halli” come from?
squash-halli (Finnish) comes from Finnish squash, from English squash, from Middle English squachen, from Old French esquacher, from Vulgar Latin excoactiare, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō, from Latin commūnis — whale, sea monster; abyss.
squash-halli (Finnish): A sports hall featuring squash courts; a squash center
Definitions
- A sports hall featuring squash courts; a squash center
Ancestry of “squash-halli”, step by step
squash-halli traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish squash
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | squash | squash |
| 2 | English | squash | A sport played in a walled court with a soft... |
| 3 | Middle English | squachen | — |
| 4 | Old French | esquacher | — |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | excoactiare | — |
| 6 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 7 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 8 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 9 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 16 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 17 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |
via Finnish halli
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | halli | large building used for sports or exhibitions,... |
| 2 | Swedish | håll | a stop, a station; a direction; a range, a... |
| 3 | Swedish | plats | place; any geographical position a little larger... |
| 4 | Old Swedish | platz | — |
| 5 | Old Norse | plaz | — |
| 6 | Middle Low German | platse | — |
| 7 | Latin | platēa | broad way, street |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | πλατεῖα | feminine nominative singular of πλατύς; feminine... |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | πλατύς | wide, broad; flat, level; broad-shouldered |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | pléth₂us | flat, broad |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | pleth₂- | flat |