Where does “tanssikappale” come from?

tanssikappale (Finnish) comes from Finnish tanssi, from Swedish dans, from Old French dance, from Old French dancier, from Vulgar Latin *dantiāre.

tanssikappale (Finnish): dance song, dance tune, dance track

Definitions

  1. dance song, dance tune, dance track

Ancestry of “tanssikappale”, step by step

tanssikappale traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish tanssi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtanssidance; Third-person singular indicative past form...
2Swedishdansdance
3Old Frenchdancedance
4Old Frenchdancierto dance
5Vulgar Latin*dantiāre—

via Finnish kappale

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkappaleobject; piece; track, song
2Proto-Finnickapalehpiece
Every word from Vulgar Latin *dantiāre →Every word from Old French dancier →Every word from Old French dance →