Where does “tanssiterapia” come from?

tanssiterapia (Finnish) comes from Finnish terapia, from New Latin therapīa, from Ancient Greek θεραπεία, from Ancient Greek θεραπεύω, from Ancient Greek -εύω, from Ancient Greek -εύς — Added to noun or adjective stems to form a...

tanssiterapia (Finnish): dance therapy

Definitions

  1. dance therapy

Ancestry of “tanssiterapia”, step by step

tanssiterapia traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish terapia

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishterapiatherapy
2New Latintherapīa
3Ancient Greekθεραπείαa waiting on service; medical treatment
4Ancient Greekθεραπεύωto wait on, attend, serve; to obey; to flatter,...
5Ancient Greek-εύωAdded to the stems of agent or other nouns in...
6Ancient Greek-εύςAdded to noun or adjective stems to form a...

via Finnish tanssi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtanssidance; Third-person singular indicative past form...
2Swedishdansdance
3Old Frenchdancedance
4Old Frenchdancierto dance
5Vulgar Latin*dantiāre
Every word from Ancient Greek -εύςEvery word from Ancient Greek -εύωEvery word from Ancient Greek θεραπεύω