Where does “tanssilattia” come from?

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

tanssilattia (Finnish): dance floor

Definitions

  1. dance floor

Ancestry of “tanssilattia”, step by step

tanssilattia 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 lattia

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlattiafloor
2Proto-Germanicflatjąa level surface; level ground; the floor of a...
3Proto-Germanicflatazflat
4Proto-Indo-EuropeanplÁt-—
Every word from Vulgar Latin *dantiāre →Every word from Old French dancier →Every word from Old French dance →