Where does “suksibaletti” come from?
suksibaletti (Finnish) comes from Finnish baletti, from French ballet, from Middle French ballet, from Italian balletto, from Italian -etto, from English -et, from Middle English -et, from Old French -et — Forms adjectives from nouns, indicating the possession of a thing or a quality.
suksibaletti (Finnish): ski ballet
Definitions
- ski ballet
Ancestry of “suksibaletti”, step by step
suksibaletti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish baletti
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | baletti | ballet |
| 2 | French | ballet | ballet |
| 3 | Middle French | ballet | — |
| 4 | Italian | balletto | Diminutive of ballo; short dance; ballet; ballet... |
| 5 | Italian | -etto | Alterative suffix used to form melioratives,... |
| 6 | English | -et | Used to form diminutives, loosely construed |
| 7 | Middle English | -et | Forms diminutive nouns from nouns; in some words,... |
| 8 | Old French | -et | Used to form a diminutive, masculine noun;... |
| 9 | Latin | -ātus | ed |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -ātos | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂tos | Forms adjectives from nouns, indicating the possession of a thing or a quality |
via Finnish suksi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | suksi | ski; Third-person singular indicative past form... |
| 2 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | *suksi | — |
| 3 | Proto-Uralic | sükśe | autumn |
| 4 | French | succès | success; achievement |
| 5 | Middle French | succes | success |
| 6 | Latin | successus | course, flow (of time), approach |
| 7 | Latin | succēdere | — |
| 8 | Latin | sub | under, beneath; behind; at the feet of |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | supo | under |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | upó | under, below |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃ewp- | — |