Where does “tankkaustauko” come from?
tankkaustauko (Finnish) comes from Finnish tankkaus, from Finnish tankata, from Finnish tankki, from Swedish tank, from Swedish tänka, from Old Swedish þænkia, from Old Norse þenkja, from Low German denken — to think.
tankkaustauko (Finnish): A pit stop
Ancestry of “tankkaustauko”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | tankkaus | refueling, tanking up |
| 2 | Finnish | tankata | to fuel, to refuel; to stammer, to stutter, to... |
| 3 | Finnish | tankki | tank |
| 4 | Swedish | tank | tank |
| 5 | Swedish | tänka | think; to ponder, to communicate to oneself in... |
| 6 | Old Swedish | þænkia | — |
| 7 | Old Norse | þenkja | — |
| 8 | Low German | denken | to think |
| 9 | Middle Low German | denken | to think, to perceive |
| 10 | Old Saxon | thenkian | to think; to perceive |
| 11 | Proto-West Germanic | þankijan | to think |
| 12 | Proto-Germanic | þankijaną | to perceive, to think |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | teng- | to think |