Where does “teekkarihuumori” come from?
teekkarihuumori (Finnish) comes from Finnish teekkari, from Finnish tekniikka, from Swedish teknik, from French technique, from Latin technicus, from Ancient Greek τεχνικός, from Ancient Greek τέχνη, from Ancient Greek -λογία — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
teekkarihuumori (Finnish): the humor associated with teekkari students of technology
Definitions
- the humor associated with teekkari students of technology
Ancestry of “teekkarihuumori”, step by step
teekkarihuumori traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish teekkari
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | teekkari | A person studying for the degree of... |
| 2 | Finnish | tekniikka | technology; technique; method |
| 3 | Swedish | teknik | a technique; technology |
| 4 | French | technique | technical; technique, technology |
| 5 | Latin | technicus | technical |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | τεχνικός | technical; artistic, skillful; of or pertaining... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | τέχνη | craft, skill, trade; art; cunning, wile |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | -λογία | Base for nouns denoting the study of something,... |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | λόγος | That which is said: word, sentence, speech,... |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | λέγω | I put in order, arrange, gather; I choose, count,... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |
via Finnish huumori
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | huumori | humour/humor |
| 2 | Latin | humor | liquid, fluid, humour; first-person singular... |
| 3 | Latin | umor | liquid, fluid, humour; moisture |
| 4 | Latin | -or | used to form a third-declension masculine... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -ōs | Creates masculine action nouns or result nouns... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -ōs | Creates masculine and feminine action nouns or... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -oss | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -os | Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs;... |