Where does “tanssitunti” come from?

tanssitunti (Finnish) comes from Finnish tanssi, from Swedish dans, from Old French dance, from Old French dancier, from Vulgar Latin *dantiāre.

tanssitunti (Finnish): dance lesson

Definitions

  1. dance lesson

Ancestry of “tanssitunti”, step by step

tanssitunti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish tanssi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtanssidance; Third-person singular indicative past form...
2Swedishdansdance
3Old Frenchdancedance
4Old Frenchdancierto dance
5Vulgar Latin*dantiāre—

via Finnish tunti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtuntihour; lesson, class
2Old Swedishstund—
Every word from Vulgar Latin *dantiāre →Every word from Old French dancier →Every word from Old French dance →
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