Where does “tanssikenkä” come from?

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

tanssikenkä (Finnish): dance shoe, dancing shoe

Definitions

  1. dance shoe, dancing shoe

Ancestry of “tanssikenkä”, step by step

tanssikenkä 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 kenkä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkenkäshoe; boot; boot; in the idiomatic expression...
2Proto-Finnickenkäshoe
Every word from Vulgar Latin *dantiāre →Every word from Old French dancier →Every word from Old French dance →
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