Where does “tanssintutkija” come from?
tanssintutkija (Finnish) comes from Finnish tutkija, from Finnish tutkia, from Finnish -ia, from Proto-Finnic -idak, from Proto-Uralic -j-.
tanssintutkija (Finnish): dance researcher
Ancestry of “tanssintutkija”, step by step
tanssintutkija traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish tutkija
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | tutkija | researcher |
| 2 | Finnish | tutkia | to examine, investigate; to research; Partitive... |
| 3 | Finnish | -ia | Forms primarily transitive verbs describing... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -idak | applicative suffix |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -j- | — |
via Finnish tanssi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | tanssi | dance; Third-person singular indicative past form... |
| 2 | Swedish | dans | dance |
| 3 | Old French | dance | dance |
| 4 | Old French | dancier | to dance |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | *dantiāre | — |