Where does “tangeerauspiste” come from?
tangeerauspiste (Finnish) comes from Finnish tangeeraus, from Finnish tangeerata, from Swedish tangera, from German tangieren, from German -ieren, from French -er, from English -er, from Middle English -er — he, she.
Ancestry of “tangeerauspiste”, step by step
tangeerauspiste traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish tangeeraus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | tangeeraus | — |
| 2 | Finnish | tangeerata | — |
| 3 | Swedish | tangera | to be tangent (to something) |
| 4 | German | tangieren | to be tangent to |
| 5 | German | -ieren | Verb suffix: it and its inflected forms are found... |
| 6 | French | -er | Forms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs |
| 7 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 8 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 9 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 10 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 15 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via Finnish piste
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | piste | point, dot, full stop, period; point |
| 2 | Finnish | -e | Used for forming nouns from verbs or adjectives |
| 3 | Finnish | hartia | shoulder |
| 4 | Serbo-Croatian | hartija | paper |
| 5 | Greek | χαρτί | paper |
| 6 | Koine Greek | χαρτίον | paper, papyrus |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | χάρτης | sheet of paper, paper; book |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | χαράσσω | to sharpen; to engrave, carve, write, draw, stamp |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵʰer- | to yearn for; to enclose; bowels, intestines |