Where does “tanssisävelmä” come from?
tanssisävelmä (Finnish) comes from Finnish tanssi, from Swedish dans, from Old French dance, from Old French dancier, from Vulgar Latin *dantiāre.
tanssisävelmä (Finnish): dance tune, dance melody especially a traditional one
Definitions
- dance tune, dance melody especially a traditional one
Ancestry of “tanssisävelmä”, step by step
tanssisävelmä 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 sävelmä
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | sävelmä | melody, tune |
| 2 | Finnish | -lma | Forms nouns, mostly from verbs |
| 3 | Finnish | -ella | Forms . The resulting verb often describes a more... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -eldak | Forms frequentative verbs |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -le- | — |