Where does “tanssiote” come from?
tanssiote (Finnish) comes from Finnish tanssi, from Swedish dans, from Old French dance, from Old French dancier, from Vulgar Latin *dantiāre.
tanssiote (Finnish): handhold in dance
Ancestry of “tanssiote”, step by step
tanssiote traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
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 | — |
via Finnish ote
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | ote | grasp, grip; approach, mindset; citation,... |
| 2 | Finnish | ottaa | to take; to take, ingest or drink; to deprive of,... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | vottadak | to take |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | wendʰ- | to wind, to turn |