Where does “squash-pallo” come from?
squash-pallo (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-pallo (Finnish): squash ball
Definitions
- squash ball
Ancestry of “squash-pallo”, step by step
squash-pallo 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 |