Where does “tanssiteos” come from?
tanssiteos (Finnish) comes from Finnish tanssi, from Swedish dans, from Old French dance, from Old French dancier, from Vulgar Latin *dantiāre.
tanssiteos (Finnish): dance piece, dance act
Ancestry of “tanssiteos”, step by step
tanssiteos 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 teos
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | teos | work; oeuvre, opus |
| 2 | Finnish | tehdä | to do, perform, execute; to make, manufacture; to... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | tektäk | to do; to make |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | teke- | to do; to put, to place |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰeh₁- | to do, put, place |