Where does “tanssiliike” come from?

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

tanssiliike (Finnish): dance move

Definitions

  1. dance move

Ancestry of “tanssiliike”, step by step

tanssiliike 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 liike

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishliikemotion; movement; shop, business
2Finnishliikkuato move, stir; to travel, go; to exercise
3Proto-Finniclikudakmove
4Proto-Uraliclikke-—
Every word from Vulgar Latin *dantiāre →Every word from Old French dancier →Every word from Old French dance →